“Nobody I know who’s authentic got that way by thinking about what it was to be a human being or be authentic. I think they were that way all along. I love the movie Schindler’s List. Schindler had no idea he was a courageous man and a moral hero out of millions of people risking his life everyday for the Jews when he wasn’t even Jewish. That was part of the marvel of it. I suspect that that’s generally how it is.”

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