"Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the……" — Sissela Bok
"Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives."
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12 Quotes by Sissela Bok
Sissela Bok has 12 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives…
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Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education;…
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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…
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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,…
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Trust is a social good to be protected just as much as the air we breathe or the water we…
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I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic…
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Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect…
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More Atmosphere Quotes
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one of 818 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere…
— David Attenborough
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
— Walter Bagehot
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In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in…
— Charles Baudelaire
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
— John Desmond Bernal
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A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the…
— Andrea Bocelli
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On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live…
— Alain de Botton
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes.…
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational…
— Madeleine Albright
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
— Samuel Butler
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The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long.…
— Alexis Carrel
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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every…
— Winston Churchill
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