What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are. - Edgar Friedenberg

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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Edgar Friedenberg

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

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Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

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Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

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The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

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No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after all, is to live long and die young.

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