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I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children and the elderly. Children learn what they live, and isolation in the __illage_ is one of the most destructive messages we daily write on the tablets of their hearts.
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I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children and the elderly. Children learn what they live, and isolation in the __illage_ is one of the most destructive messages we daily write on the tablets of their hearts.

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