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"Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own."
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"Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity."
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"Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, "You're a good man, Harry."I swallowed and bowed my head, made humble by the tone of her voice and the expression on her face, more than the words themselves.Not always rational," she said, smiling. "But you're the best kind of crazy."
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"We are very simple human until we learn to use the power of our divine love."
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"A poet warrior realizes both the brutality and the beauty in life, and apprehends that the suffering we tragically endure is partly what makes us human. What also makes us human is the ability to love, the ability to stand in nature's presence, and to nurture this earthly paradise to tend to our family's needs."
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"Instead of narrowing our allegiances to only include our favored nation, let us sing an anthem to the marvelous human being."
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"Help humanity to help yourself. Love humanity to love yourself."
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"Let us be wild and weird with love for humanity."
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"We are creatures taken seriously by the Earth, because we can severely affect the fate of the Earth, but we are in no way taken seriously by the Universe yet!"
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"Humility is one of the best expressions of self respect."
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"We tend to deny our humanity because in accepting the fullness of it, we would need to confess how little we've done with it."
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"A territory is only possessed for a moment in time."
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"The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else."
Life

"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."
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"Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off."
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"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope."
Life

"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
Living

"The truth needs so little rehearsal."
Truth

"Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent."
Society

"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
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"Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain."
People
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