dominance
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By learning to fight, we can make a more peaceful world.
By building confidence, we become better able to choose nonviolence, since we’ll be that much more likely to feel safe.
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On noticing.
Even now, when many of us feel so powerless, we’re in control of our choices. And they matter.
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