- People should do whatever it takes to accomplish their dreams
- Life is fair
- Inherited money should be equally split between family members
- Finances should be left to the man of the house
- Racism stopped with the Civil War
- People learn from their mistakes
- How you act in a crisis shows who you really are
- Love conquers all
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