The demand for certainty is a sign of weakness, and if we are to create a better world, we need a certain willingness to live with doubt, for it is not defeat when we cannot know everything — it is the beginning of wisdom.
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There's no such thing as therapy. There's therapy to solve a particular problem, a psychological problem at a particular at a particular time for a a particular purpose. There's no generic thing called therapy and and there's no, you know, generic idea of working on yourself in some kind of, you know, nebulous, unspecified way.
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