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Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. – Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949

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Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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