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“Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“A child... who has learned from fairy stories to believe that what at first seemed a repulsive, threatening figure can magically change into a most helpful friend is ready to believe that a strange child whom he meets and fears may also be changed from a menace into a desirable companion.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)
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