“ I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words – and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions. ”
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“ I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was… a human being. ”
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“ So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it’s a positive one. ”
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“ I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father’s life. ”
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“ I simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed. ”
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“ We’re all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections. ”
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“ For somewhere in the back of my mind is that odd explanation that if you whisper a sentence in the ear of one person around a table of many a short sentence such as "John slept close to a woman with whom he worked" as those words go around the table, whispered to each person next to another, it might come out, less than a minute later, that John was a sleeparounder, and he did it with every woman he knew; which meant he probably was gay, because he needed to give the impression of being a raging heterosexual. Now, if that could happen in one minute, think of the long history of most faiths. ”
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“ A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better. ”
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“ Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years a smile here, a jarring sound there that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quickcut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings? ”
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“ Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years a smile here, a jarring sound there that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quickcut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings? ”
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