"He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief."
― Francis Bacon
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- "The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises."― Sigmund Freud