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School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign…
Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.
The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if…
Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.
Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous…
Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement
What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and…
A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money is more…
Unequal Democracy is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and above all,…
Positive people have more friends which is a key factor of happiness and longevity.
Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.
People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there.

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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases… — Zygmunt Bauman
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced… — Louis D. Brandeis
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or… — Thomas Carlyle
To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it… — Jean Giraudoux
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud. — Samuel Johnson
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man… — George Washington
Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness. — Galen
School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign… — Robert D. Putnam
Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ...… — Aristotle
Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts. — Satish Kumar
The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil… — George Washington

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