Norman Doidge  - Quotes

 Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history. (243) 

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Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will only enter a synagogue for the bar or bat mitzvah of a friend's child, or in order to have a debate with the faithful. (When I was to be wed, I chose a rabbi named Robert Goldburg, an Einsteinian and a Shakespearean and a Spinozist, who had married Arthur Miller to Marilyn Monroe and had a copy of Marilyn 

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John O'Donohue  - Quotes

 When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered. 

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Scott Sigler  - Quotes

 That sure as fuck ain't no cow 

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Edmund Burke  - Quotes

 People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. 

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Toba Beta  - Quotes

 We should have known much more than our ancestors.

But if we learn less, we're much more stupid than them.
 

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Arthur C. Clarke  - Quotes

 He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness. 

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Toba Beta  - Quotes

 You are the fairy told by your ancestors. 

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Toba Beta  - Quotes

 Maybe, it is easier to forget the past,

than to overcome the pain caused by it.

Maybe, it is one of some other reasons,

why men forget their prehuman ancestor.
 

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