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"We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology."
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"We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology."
Compassion
"When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly."
War
"What do you say to your sister who poses in the nude? It's not like you are really itching to see photographs of your sister naked. I mean, it's just something that is not too exciting."
Family
"I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline."
Coach
"Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds."
Family
"My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure."
War
"I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?"
Disgust
"You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization."
Research
"The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book."
Family
"We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved."
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"If you despise your people, you will disregard them. If you hate your people, you will harm them. If you esteem your people, you will serve them. If you love your people, you will even die for them."
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"So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his knees; he will weep and we shall weep, he will be eloquent and I shall be comforted, and my heart shall melt into his, he will take my soul, and I his God.But what is this kindly old gentleman to me? And what am I to him? Just one more member of the race of unfortunates, one more shade to go with the many he has seen, one more figure to add to his total of executions."
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Personal Development
"He held out a shaky and worn hand and she met it with one of her young and inexperienced ones."
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Personal Development
"We have to help the one who has fallen, we should not question 'why did you fall?"
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Personal Development
"Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one."
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Personal Development
"He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me."
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Personal Development
"To minimize hatred and oppression, our love roots must be deep and solid."
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Personal Development
"Nowhere in the bible did it say, "Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust." If we did that, we would be burying homeless people every day."
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"Life is never easy for any one. Be gentle with one another."
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Personal Development
"An open heart has greater power than a clenched fist."
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Personal Development
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