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" When you abuse someone, you limit their perspective, and you trap them in your view of them or your view of the world. "

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" I had been raised in the mountains of Idaho by a father who distrusted many of the institutions that people take for granted - public education, doctors and hospitals, and the government. "

" At BYU, I discovered history, then historiography. I became fascinated with the study of historians and historical trends, with the idea that the way we remember the past changes and shifts with our own preoccupations. "

" I felt like we had stories about family loyalty; I didn't feel like we had stories about what to do when you felt that loyalty to your family was in conflict with loyalty to yourself. "

" The things about my childhood that I really loved the most, writing about those things was hard because I knew they would never happen again. "

" I have a theory that all abuse, no matter what kind of abuse it is, is foremost an assault on the mind. "

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" We think about education as a stepping stone into a higher socio-economic class, into a better job. And it does do those things. But I don't think that's what it really is. I experienced it as getting access to different ideas and perspectives and using them to construct my own mind. "