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"My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college."
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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."
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"Children see beauty in everything."
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Personal Development

"You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man's responsibility for the family."
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"Do not refuse to help your own relatives."
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"A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done."
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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
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"Children are great observers."
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"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home."
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"I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth."
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"I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters."
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"Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge."
Behavior

"Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse."
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"Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic."
Behavior

"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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"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."
Being

"The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life."
Life

"There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable."
Education

"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

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