We as Democrats have not been very interested in poverty or issues relating to the inner city as much as we should have. Think about the last presidential campaign: It’s pretty hard to focus a...

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If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual’s pain gained meaning was through its communication to others.

A male-female close-friendship hardly differs from a relationship; it takes “relating” to be friends. But sadly, not every relationship has friendship in it. It’s just ironical that two people who are not good enough to...

In the consciousness that another mind reflects your thought, you find the keenest satisfaction. Here is the high office of a friend, and in these high experiences is the point of attachment.–