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"Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true."
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"It is better to help an enemy than to harm a friend."

"Only love can inspire us to sacrifice."

"Perhaps above everything compassion is the most important thing to embrace and emanate in life. It will enhance your life - and it's the one thing that will elevate and heal mankind."

"Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?"

"Zarathustra answered: "I love mankind."

"When you show love and empathy to people, you draw them closer to your beliefs and traditions."

"As the aperture of your heart opens to love you will receive more of the light of compassion, acceptance, gentleness, grace and understanding."

"See what love sees. Hear what love hears. Say what love says. Do what love does."

"True service is when you serve others without expecting anything in return."

"Compassion brings us closer to each other."
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"Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered."

"To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself."

"Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity."

"A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love."

"I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face."

"The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape."

"Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh."
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