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"I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream."

"There is so much hope in a little flower and so many flowers in a little hope!"

"For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!"

"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"
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"I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights."

"I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are."

"I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced."

"My research in this period centered around growth, technical change, and income distribution, both how growth affected the distribution of income and how the distribution of income affected growth."

"The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy."

"My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst."

"Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education."

"I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard."

"The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities."
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