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3/Hoffman defines this process as “freedom from an excessive need for approval, closeness, togetherness, and emotional support in relation to the mother and father.”
→Children need their parents to tell them what to do or not to do. They also need to be close to their parents and receive encouragement, love, all kinds of emotional support which give them strength. But when they grow up, they no longer have the same needs like babies.
22☆Given time—time not in years but in millennia—life adjusts, and a balance has been reached.
---When the environment changes, living things can adapt to their new surroundings, but it is a long process and it takes thousands of years for life to be in harmony with their modified world again .
33☆For ten years or more the ferocity with which she had once
attacked life had been turning to a rage against the weakness,
the boredom, and the absence of love that too much age had
brought her.
---Throughout her life, she attacked life with fierceness, but now she began to suffer physical and psychological problem of aging. she became angry about her declining health, her boredom and her loneliness.
6/These religious, moral, and ethical values that are set during the college years often last a lifetime.
→These values that are established during the college years often last a lifetime. It is believed that our character or basic moral principles are formulated during this period of time.
10/And in circles devoted to literary criticism,…surrounding discussions of reading.
→When literary critics discussed the problem of reading, they sometimes showed the terrible attitude that reading was a right that only belonged to them, not to be shared with other people.
24☆And even this, were it by some miracle possible,
would be futile, for the new chemicals come from
our laboratories in an endless stream.
--- Even if life did adjust to the chemicals by some miracle, it would be useless, because the new chemicals are continuously created and produced .
26☆I am saying, rather, that control must be geared to realities, and that the methods employed must be such that they do not destroy us along with the insects.
---On the contrary I am saying that the control should be determined by the actual environment and that the methods should not be harmful to humans.
31☆She gazed at this improbably overgrown figure out of
an inconceivable future and promptly dismissed it.
---She could not imagine the distant future when her little Russell would be that tall and big. Therefore she immediately put that thought out of her mind.
32☆It showed in that angry challenging thrust of the chin when
she issued an opinion, and a great one she had always
been for issuing opinions.
---When she expressed an opinion, her chin would come forward angrily and defiantly. She liked to give her opinion and was never afraid of speaking her mind.
35☆ I had written her with some banal advice to

look for the silver lining, to count her blessings instead of burdening others with her miseries.
---In a letter, I had advised her to appreciate the good things in her life and not to worry those who came to see her by complaining about her unhappiness and sufferings.
1/identity is determined by genetic endowment (what is inherited from parents), shaped by environment, and influenced by chance events.
→ Who we are is determined by three things: first, our genes, or what our parents have given us, our legacy; second, environment, and third, luck or opportunities.
2/It may be heightened by their choice to pursue a college education. ---If they choose to continue their education, they will face an even more serious struggle between the desire to be independent and the need to depend on the financial support of their parents.
17☆His life’s aim was clear to him: it was “to restamp the currency”: to take the clean metal of human life, to erase the old false conventional markings, and to imprint it with its true values.
---Life is like a metal marked with false and conventional values. His life task is to remove those false markings and imprint a true value on it.
30☆Through all this she lay in bed but moved across time, traveling among the dead decades with a speed and ease beyond the gift of physical science.
---… traveling among the past decades so quickly and easily that no physical science would be able to do it.
34/Now…she seemed to have broken chains that imprisoned her in a life she had come to hate and to return to a time inhabited by people who loved her ,a time in which she was needed.
---Now…she seemed to have found a way of escaping from her present life by recalling her good, old days when she was loved and needed
36☆ A world had lived and died, and though it was part of my blood and bone I knew little more about it than I knew of the world of the pharaohs.
---The world my mother lived in when she was young was now past. Though I was closely related to that world, I knew as little about it as I knew about the ancient Egypt.
38☆If a parent does lift the curtain a bit, it is often only to stun the young with some exemplary tale of how much harder life was in the old days.
---If a parent tells the children a bit about his/her past, it often turns out to be a moral lesson about how hard life was in the past, which does not make sense to the children.