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“We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning.”

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Book:The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence
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