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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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A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience…
— George Schaller
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Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience.
— Kobayashi Issa
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Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work.…
— Andy Goldsworthy
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When we are fully mindful of the transience of things - an impending return home from an overseas adventure, a graduation, our…
— Sonja Lyubomirsky
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Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience.
— Baldur von Schirach
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Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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Never mind the transience of show business and popularity. When we hear Ray Charles, we go, 'That's a great singer.' You don't…
— Art Garfunkel
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Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that…
— Félix J. Palma
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
— Petrarch
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves,…
— William Wordsworth
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Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.
— Saadi
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