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What does the quote “Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow”. By Ernest J. Gaines means?

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I think it means that in order to help someone reach their full potential you have to give them a shove or let them go. Like if you’re in an awful abusive relationship, even if you love them and leaving them would hurt them, you have too in order to help them and yourself
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