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media type="custom" key="8379756" width="80" height="80" align="right" //**"It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong**//. What truths can a human being afford to furnish the cluttered nervous room of his mind with when he has no real idea how long a lease he has on the future. It is to try to meet the challenge of such questions that we have prepared these broadcasts. It has been a difficult task and a delicate one. Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice—and those thoughts we aren’t interested in—people don’t speak their beliefs easily or publicly.

"In a way, our project has been an invasion of privacy, like demanding a man to let a stranger read his mail. General Lucius Clay remarked, “//**It would hardly be less embarrassing for an individual to be forced to disrobe in public than to unveil his private philosophy.**//” Mrs. Roosevelt hesitated a long time. “What can I possibly say that will be of any value to anybody else,” she asked us. And a railway executive in Philadelphia argued at first that we might as well try to engrave the Lord’s Prayer on the head of a pin, as to attempt to discuss anything thoughtfully in the space of five minutes."


 * [|Edward R. Murrow]**

__AFTERNOON TALONS CLASS BELIEF STATEMENT__
We believe that to love and to be loved we must accept ourselves, recognizing our imperfections as an integral part of what makes us who we are We believe that happiness is attained when you discover what life means as you see it. We believe that by taking risks and exposing our vulnerabilities, we open ourselves up to the truest expressions of love and connection. We believe in acceptance and openness, in being who we are, whoever that may be. By pushing our boundaries, and living what we believe,we can push ourselves to new heights. We believe in being happy.
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