Teenagers have no monopoly on [adolescent behavior], except insofar as we are in fact a teenage society — a society that likes to play "chicken" not with fast cars, but with ballistic missiles.

Thomas Merton

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Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968), religious name M. Louis, was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion. He was a monk in the Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, near Bardstown, Kentucky, living there from 1941 to...

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