"Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality."

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"Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality."

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"Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact."

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