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Sissela Bok has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
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While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
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Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in…
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Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of…
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Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods,…
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Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.
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We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the…
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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…
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Trust is a social good to be protected just as much as the air we breathe or the water we drink. When…
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I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society.... if…
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Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.
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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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You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.
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The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it's just…
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We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the…
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To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance.…
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That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did…
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The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it.…
— William Hazlitt
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It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to…
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There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas.…
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The eighteen years he has lived seem but a moment, a breathing space in the long march of humanity. Already he hears…
— Sherwood Anderson
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All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.
— Margaret Mitchell
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I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space…
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