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"The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces."
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"There are heroes in evil as well as in good."
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Personal Development

"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
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Personal Development

"The evil thing is inside, not out."
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Personal Development

"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?"
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Personal Development

"Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us."
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Personal Development

"She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil."
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"The real thing about evil, you figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret."
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Personal Development

"The joy of seeing another person in pain, frustrated or angry is a delicacy only for the most wicked."
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Personal Development

"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."
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Personal Development

"Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. So what if he was a hero? So what if he did something brave? Evil was always here, regenerating, bubbling under the surface. Percy was no more than a minor annoyance to these immortal beings. They just had to outwait him. Someday, Percy's sons or daughters might have to face them all over again."
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"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."
Psychology

"Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed."
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"There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable."
Education

"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."
Life

"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."
Power

"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?"
People

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

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

"After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever."
Passion

"Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse."
Evil
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