When we choose to polarize, friendship, community and intimacy suffer. It happens in school, when teachers treat their students like they are on the other side of a fence; in marriages, when partners fail to work at their union; in medicine, when doctors and nurses forget that they, too, get sick and need help.
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Americans, politicians included, talk frequently about ideals of unity and then indulge in polarization.
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A kingdom divided against itself cannot survive.
Thomas Moore
