“How can we expect people to put value on our work when we don't value ourselves enough to set and hold uncomfortable boundaries?”

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US writer and professor 1965

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“As long as we are not actually destroyed, we can work to gain greater understanding of other peoples and to try to present to the peoples of the world the values of our own beliefs.”

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