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Anyone Can Change

Most of us are too quick to judge not knowing anything about a person, and distrust is the outcome of ignorance capable of setting us apart from civilization; first gather the facts, not useless rage, and the belief that anyone can change draws ourselves to a truth so unknown... Hear all the words they speak, use intuition; do they convince you to continue listening, or throw you off with idignation? If that voice sounds too unconvincing, and can't confirm the answers you're expecting, come up with questions that are pungent: transforming those ideas with a thought, and always believe that anyone can change... Empires have risen, giving the obsolute power to fearless men who were made into legends; some were deserving, but most were tyrants of unclemency, and did shameful and cruel deeds: torturing or killing anybody who used to dare; are we learning something from History? When Attila the Hun rampaged Italy, Leo the Great...the courageous Pope, persuaded the savage king not to sack the city of Rome; and he also believed anyone could change: that any heart, with all its brutality and rage, could replace its rampant fury and grim with human compassion and mercy...

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