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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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All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
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Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
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All love shifts and changes...
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If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.
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Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
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How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It…
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