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- The whole purpose of places like ``Starbucks`` is for people with no decision making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just about one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So, people who don`t know what the hell they`re doing or who on Earth they are, can for only 2.95 get not just a cup of coffee, but an absolutely defining sense of self.

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- It wasn`t personal.

- What- What is that supposed to be? I am so sick of that. All that means is that it wasn`t personal to you, but it was personal to me, it`s personal to a lot of people. Oh what is so wrong with being personal anyway?

- Eh- Nothing.

- Oh. Because whatever else anything is, it ought to begin by being personal.

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- You know - The world is not driven by discounts, believe me. I have been in business for- ever. I mean - I started helping my mother after school here when I was six years old and I used to watch her. And it wasn`t that she was just selling books, it was that she was helping people become whoever was they were gonna turn out to be. Because when you read a book as a child it becomes part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.

Questions for discussion:

1. Do You make Your own decisions or do you prefer to be decided for?
2. Does it happen in all areas? In all cases?
3. Do You like Your choice?
4. Do you like people who decide for you? Do You appreciate it?
5. Would You like to change Your making decision habits? How?
6. Are You perfectly aware of who You really are on Earth?
7. Do others agree with You?
8. What do you want in this life?
9. Have You achieved anything from that?
10. Would you like to change anything in who You are (or aren`t)?
11. Are You like Harry Haller from ``Steppenwolf`` or Joseph Knecht from ``The Glass Bead Game`` or would You like to be?
12. Would you like to have people like those as Your friends? Superiors? Subordinates? Spouse? Parents? Children? Teachers? Gurus?
13. Are You afraid of such people?
14. Are You able to love such a person?