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much personal information and only a
slight filter exists between my thoughts
and my willingness to share them. Life long
friends would undoubtedly say I have learned
to use restraint when talking about subjects
that people identify themselves with such as
politics or religion. I owe this asset of restraint
to many years spent being opinionated, judg-
mental and wrong.
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People often lose everything by clinging to a need to be right, when just the
willingness to be wrong opens up an eternity of possibility. Arrogance and pride
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