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Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

Daniel Goleman

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Daniel Goleman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: March 7
Author
Journalist
Psychologist
Researcher
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Chinatown
Stockton
Buried
Weight
Peace
War
Sunk
Ugliness
Antiwar
Societies

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