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" Nobody is born evil. "

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" Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy. "

" There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all. "

" Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child. "

" A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world. "

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" Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder. "

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" The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure. "

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" Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you. "