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

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"Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed."

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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."

Family, Childhood, College, First

"I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent."

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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."

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"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?"

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

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

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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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"At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia."

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

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"Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"Revolutions are the locomotives of history."

Karl Marx, German Philosopher

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"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

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"History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"What is history but a fable agreed upon?"

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

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"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"History is more or less bunk."

Henry Ford, American Businessman

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