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— John Kador"One of the most useful tasks of apology is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly, and painfully past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong and disgraceful. It behooves us to consider if future geenrations will similarly regard the aims we most defend today."
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Apology is the practice of extending ourselves because we value the relationship more than we value the need to be right.
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