"All that we can't say is all we need to hear."
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"It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training."
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"Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care."
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"When you have empathy toward your opponents, it helps you destroy them quicker. Because you understand exactly who they are. You understand what buttons to push. You understand if they're insecure, if they fear embarrassment. And you can really hit those buttons to strike a nerve."
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"Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another."
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"Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people."
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"The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less."
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"We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves."
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"But it will depend on young people like you being open to new ideas and new possibilities. And it will require young people like you never to stereotype or assume the worst about other people."
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"Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life."
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"A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy."
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"True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others."
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"The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl."
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"Feeling one "has"; love occurs."
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"In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found."
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"A man posing for a painting."
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"If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive."
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"If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path."
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"Empathy grows as we learn."
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"Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?"
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