"One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence."

-- Geoff Mulgan

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“The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.”
“The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.”
“It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity, and that when their sons have become taller than themselves, and are gone from them to college or into the world, there are wide spaces of their time which are not filled with praying for their boys, reading old letters, and envying yet blessing those who are attending to their shirt-buttons.”
“Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.”
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.”
“One of kindness and integrity. I know I fail constantly, but Iâ€™m working towards being a reliable and worthy contributor to the world.”
“Roots of the weed sucked first life from the genesis of earth and hold the essence of it still. Always the weed returns; the cultured plant retreats before it.”
“In looking for the keys of paradise, a pope may stoop a little; having found them, he should rise again.”

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