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Is loneliness a mental illness? To google.

What do I really stand for? What principles do I regard as being worth defending?
How does my personal sense of right and wrong inform my own attitudes, beliefs and behaviour?
Am I living in ways that are true to my stated values?

Power erodes integrity

Complacency versus change

Scathing opinion of single sex schools

Prisoners of our prejudices - how to unlearn

‘To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it’ Confucius

75 - 85% of the worlds population: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism (Buddhists object being called a religion because they don’t believe in a god)

We humans are inveterate interpreters

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not - Samuel L Johnson

Projection and criticism of self

Patriots seek allies; nationalists need enemies

Doubt is the oxygen that keeps the flickering candle of faith alive: I believe precisely because I can't know.

Fundamentalists and assorted religious extremists and fanatics are so passionately certain of the invincibility of their own position; so sure of themselves, so obstinate, that there doesn't actually seem to be any room for faith. They are not believers so much as bigots, since belief entails faith and faith entails doubt.

Doubt lies at the heart of wisdom

Curiosity

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Samuel Johnson