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Demeter

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2. Smart, and educated, perhaps. But too many lack integrity or honor. Or even compassion.

Reply to jtuck004 (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 12, 2013, 08:59 PM

Sep 2013

It's not enough to collect pieces of paper, whether degrees or dollar bills.

It's what you do with them, to justify your value to society, that really matters.

If you misuse your talents to afflict those below or bereft, you aren't a good person. No matter how much you profit from your crimes against your fellow humans, they are STILL crimes against humanity.

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