We need to cooperate more. There may have been valid disagreements, but it’s clear that the old system of partisanship isn’t working well. Dividing everyone into camps (rich/poor, left/right, east/west, jew/arab, black/white etc.) has left everyone diminished for the experience.
Don’t listen to those who say, you are taking too big a chance… Don’t listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says, they all smarter than you out there. They’re more talented, they’re taller, blonder, prettier, luckier and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you’ll be a person worthy of your own respects.
Quotation from Neil Simon