“Love for a person is acceptance of him or her the way he is and the way he is not.”

—  Werner Erhard

Interview with William Warren Bartley, cited in — [Bartley, William Warren, w:William Warren Bartley, Werner Erhard: the Transformation of a Man: the Founding of est, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1978, New York, 251, 0-517-53502-5]

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