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Forgiveness isn't just the absence of anger. I think it's also the presence of self-love, when you actually begin to value yourself.

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I think if you're going to abuse someone, you really have to convince them of two things. First, you have to normalise what you're doing, convince them that it's not that bad. And the second thing is to convince them that they deserve it in some way.

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I have a theory that all abuse, no matter what kind of abuse it is, is foremost an assault on the mind.

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When you abuse someone, you limit their perspective, and you trap them in your view of them or your view of the world.

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I knew how to write like an academic, so I knew how to write academic papers and essays and things. But the things that are great for an essay are unbearable in narrative writing.

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Academic writing is such a different way of writing.

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We think about education as a stepping stone into a higher socio-economic class, into a better job. And it does do those things. But I don't think that's what it really is. I experienced it as getting access to different ideas and perspectives and using them to construct my own mind.

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I had access to books, and I could read... but that more foundational, basic historical awareness, I didn't have any of that.

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I didn't even have a birth certificate until I was 9 years old, which meant that, according to the state of Idaho and the federal government, I just didn't exist.

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Anyone who grows up reading the Bible for spiritual reasons, you get accustomed to reading things that are too much for you, too profound for you... Having that belief that you should read them anyway gives you a great advantage over people who only read what they think they can understand.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: Unknown

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