Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.

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Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level.

Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

For all of the advice in the magazines on "How to Keep your Love Alive," the salvation of love is not the prolongation of sexual desire but the shared lifelong cultivation of a romantic lightheartedness that softens conflicts and anxieties and focuses serious attention even as it undermines seriousness as such. It's hard to fall out of love so long as you're laughing together.

There is a European Central Bank, of course, established and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely the same but similar.