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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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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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When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an…
— Mary Midgley
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There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.
— Robert Smith Surtees
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Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,--the knowledge of…
— Charlotte Mason
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There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies…
— Confucius
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A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and…
— George Savile
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God helps three sorts of people: fools, children and drunkards
— Proverb
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