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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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"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."
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Personal Development
"Blessed is the womb that born you."
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Personal Development
"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."
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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."
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"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."
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"Children are angels."
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"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."
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"God bless me and my son John Me and my wife him and his wife Us four and no more."
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"We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers."
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"Wrapped in a mother's love is the most beautiful and safest place on earth for a child."
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"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."
Research
"Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic."
Behavior
"What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people."
Technology
"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
"The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces."
Evil
"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."
Family
"After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever."
Passion
"Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed."
Being
"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
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