Chapter 16

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"They are not free who drag their chains after them" -French Proverb (The Art of Being Human tenth edition, Richard Paul Janaro, Thelma C. Altshuler, French Proverb, Page 498, right margin quote one)

Date unknown, William Powell Frith The Witch Trial, Author unknown, location unknown

To live and survive freely you have to let go of some of your baggage. You can't remain angry at the world forever it will only bring you down as well. Instead of dwelling on the past we should take what we learned from our past experiences and try and improve on ourselves so we don't make the same mistakes. The chains we gain that we did not cause also need to be let go. You cannot grieve the past forever, you can't change what has happened. Life sucks but you have to try and move on no matter how hard that may feel.

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"We don't allow our enemies to have guns. Why should we allow them to have ideas?" -Joseph Stalin (The Art of Being Human tenth edition, Richard Paul Janaro, Thelma C. Altshuler, Joseph Stalin, Page 499, right margin quote one)

5 October 1861, 'Rebel Prisoners in the Dungeon of the State House at Jefferson City, Missouri', Missouri, James A. Guirl

Given the context of who the quote came from we already can assume that this is not a hollow threat. Stalin has the ability to silence anyone who has separate opinions from hum. He truly may want to shape the ways others think and behave

In actuality, this wouldn't really be feasible since it is extremely hard to suppress the opinion of a group of people. People are able to adapt to new situations and blend into the common crowd so you are unable to distinguish friend from foe. Even if you are able to kill someone whose ideas you don't agree with or because you deem them an enemy, that could simply add strength to there ideals and give it traction to spread to the public.

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"Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technology with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters" -B.F Skinner (The Art of Being Human tenth edition, Richard Paul Janaro, Thelma C. Altshuler, B.F Skinner, Page 501, right margin)

1309, 'Woman teaching geometry', Paris, Melicain Master

Sometimes things are just the way they are and there is no way to change that fact. It's not necessarily a bad thing but it can very be aggravating. You can use sciences to explain how and why things are happening but for people and for nature we can act spontaneously and erratically. This is something that is rather charming about life, you can't just be handed a book on how life is and what will happen. Everything is subjective and will change depending on the person and how they think and act. Sure you can use psychology to manipulate and change someone's behavior but not even that always works or if it does

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