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Protection from criminal mentality
The adage "Stone walls do not a prison make" may include a message beyond the traditional: that there is an action of thought which cannot be imprisoned. Walls cannot contain thinking; they can't diminish the mental influence we have on each other.
We can't just stick someone—or many—behind bars and, forgetting them, feel protected from criminality. A criminal way of thinking cannot be confined by prison bars. It is part of the mental atmosphere inherent in mortality.

February 4, 1980 issue
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Innovate: should we or shouldn't we?
EDWIN G. LEEVER
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Reading the signs
FEROL AUSTEN
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Lesson on selflessness
SUSAN M. SCHMELTZ
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Loving away loneliness
HELEN R. CONROYD
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Accept the healing truth
DONALD M. SWINNEY
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Where do you stand?
DOROTHY SCHUBERT MATTHEWS
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Gently as a bird lights . . .
NANCY L. HOLDER
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God-impelled unification
NATHAN A. TALBOT
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Protection from criminal mentality
BEULAH M. ROEGGE
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Error tells on itself
Sandra Lynn Eastman
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In mid-1970, I was on a ship off the California...
CARL E. KOCH
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Gratitude and joy furnished the spiritual foundation for a recent...
CASTELLE C. MOREY
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In 1974 I was an officer of an industrial company that was invited...
HELEN DILLEN MILLER
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A number of years ago, my daughter and I were left alone
CAROLE LEWIS SOUTH with contributions from JOY PATIENCE LEWIS SOUTH, JAMES B. SOUTH
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LETTERS TO THE PRESS
with contributions from DAVID W. BARTON, HOGARTH W. EASTMAN