Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do.
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To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
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Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self.
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We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles.
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A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.
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Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and coordination of these scattered fragments of knowledge is one of the basic problems- perhaps the basic problem- of any society.
