Only women, and, especially, mothers (such as Sullivan), have the discernment and innate authority to create, indeed insist upon, mutual respect and, with it, social harmony.

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Whether that can come with other freedoms and social harmony is a short-run question now plaguing many a mind.

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Conservatives like to contrast what they see as a Confucian stress on social harmony and moral rectitude with the West's emphasis on individual rights.

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The Qiang New Year Festival, held on the first day of the tenth lunar month, is an occasion for the Qiang people of China's Sichuan Province to offer thanks and worship to heaven for prosperity, reaffirm their harmonious and respectful relationship with nature, and promote social and family harmony.

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The current administration has suffered from a bankruptcy of ideas, calling only for social harmony, but failing to come up with any alternative solutions which address the causes.

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"We intend to register our apprehensions that release of the film with (even) deleted scenes or changes will affect the social harmony and all-round peace in the state, " Mohammed Haneefa of the Federation of Islamic Movements and Political Parties was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India news agency.

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"Let us then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind, let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty, and even life itself, are but dreary things, " he said in a classic expression of our great tradition of conciliation.

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