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Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world…
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Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to others problems…
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I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I…
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I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan…
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You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.
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Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.
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A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.
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America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?
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Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and…
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For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of…
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I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years…
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I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I…
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
— Saint Augustine
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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.
— Hugo Chavez
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Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The one thing I never want to see again is a military parade. When I resigned from the army and went to…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Be faithful in all your exercises of piety and virtue; be always resigned; be satisfied, in the superior part of your soul,…
— Paul of the Cross
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
— Willa Cather
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Acceptance doesn't mean that you've resigned yourself to live the rest of your life with a particular person, or in a particular…
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
— Ignazio Silone
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No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They…
— Hugh Miller
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