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"Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hop..." — Carl Jung

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
Carl Jung
Carl Jung Psychologist • Swiss
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