"If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find the answer."
"We've been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all to prefer fitting in with the right people"
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Source: Sergio Troncoso (2011). “From This Wicked Patch of Dust”, p.97, University of Arizona Press
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