“We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.”
Magic Touch: Six Things You Can Do to Connect in a Disconnected World. https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolynrosenblatt/2011/01/18/magic-touch-six-things-you-can-do-to-connect-in-a-disconnected-world/, Forbes, 18 Jan 2011.
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“Yet still we hug the dear deceit.”
Content, Vision iv, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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“She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.”
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“Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!”