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Many Of The Rites Of Passage, Those Rituals Of Growing Up Found In Our Society, Are In The Form Of Such Comic, Practical Joking Affairs--which We Ignore In The Belief That They Possess No Deeper Significance. Yet It Is Precisely In Their Being Regarded As Unimportant That They Take On Importance. For In Them We Ritualize And Dramatize Attitudes Which Contradict And Often Embarrass The Sacred Values Which We Proclaim Through Our Solemn Ceremonies And Rituals Of Nationhood.

...and Yet I Am What They Think I Am.

Without Involvement, There Is No Commitment. Mark It Down, Asterisk It, Circle It, Underline It." Stephen Covey "it Takes A Deep Commitment To Change And An Even Deeper Commitment To Grow.

America Is Woven Of Many Strands. I Would Recognize Them And Let It So Remain.

You Start Saul, And End Up Paul,' My Grandfather Had Often Said. 'when You're A Youngun, You Saul, But Let Life Whup Your Head A Bit And You Starts To Trying To Be Paul - Though You Still Sauls Around On The Side.