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"She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil."

"There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless."

"All evil is good become cancerous."
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"Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can."

"The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual."

"Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world."

"Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge."

"One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us."

"Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish."

"Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented."

"I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?"

"What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?"

"I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977."
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