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"Empathize with others. You may easily get into a situation where you need the understanding of others."
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Personal Development
"Hatred is prevalent on this earth because it requires no real effort, unlike the investment it takes to genuinely understand a person."
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Personal Development
"People talk and people listen, but very few care enough to help."
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Personal Development
"Apathy is, too often, a result of overexposure to stressful, highly emotional situations. To rekindle empathy, sometimes we need some space. It's okay to walk away so that you can feel love for someone again. Sometimes for a moment. Sometimes forever."
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Personal Development
"Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive."
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Personal Development
"Anyone who takes the time to attentively listen is either an old soul or a romantic one."
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Personal Development
"In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel."
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Personal Development
"How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?"
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Personal Development
"Becoming an empathetic listener helps you to better understand how another person feels and why they communicate as they do."
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Personal Development
"Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself."
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"I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."
War
"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
Politics
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
Freedom
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
Wisdom
"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."
Politics
"All that is necessary for a student is access to a library."
Education
"All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world."
Truth
"In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue."
Wisdom
"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
Politics
"Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste."
Politics
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