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If Life Is To Be Sustained, Hope Must Remain.

When Established Identities Become Outworn Or Unfinished Ones Threaten To Remain Incomplete, Special Crises Compel Men To Wage Holy Wars, By The Cruelest Means, Against Those Who Seem To Question Or Threaten Their Unsafe Ideological Bases.

Babies Control And Bring Up Their Families As Much As They Are Controlled By Them; In Fact ... The Family Brings Up Baby By Being Brought Up By Him.

Hope Is The Enduring Belief In The Attainability Of Fervent Wishes, In Spite Of The Dark Urges And Rages Which Mark The Beginning Of Existence. Hope Is The Ontogenetic Basis Of Faith, And Is Nourished By The Adult Faith Which Pervades Patterns Of Care.

Children Cannot Be Fooled By Empty Praise And Condescending Encouragement. They May Have To Accept Artificial Bolstering Of Their Self-esteem In Lieu Of Something Better, But What I Call Their Accruing Ego Identity Gains Real Strength Only From Wholehearted And Consistent Recognition Of Real Accomplishment, That Is, Achievement That Has Meaning In Their Culture.