12 Oct 12
Originally posted by kiki46"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second."
I think sometimes our backgrounds determine either a desire for privacy or a need for openness and candor. Tolerance and the ability to refrain from either extreme is the answer.
John Steinbeck
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