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America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an 'epidemic of children killing children,' which is ravaging some of its communities today.


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Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.



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Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.



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Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.



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Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.



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To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.



Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.



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Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.



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Sitting too long in front of a screen proves both physically and psychologically debilitating, no matter how innocuous or even beneficial the programs may be.





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