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• Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Thinking, Compassion

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• What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

  Karl Rove

  Justice, Understanding, Want

  "Republicans and Obama's Court Nominees" by Karl Rove, www.wsj.com. May 7, 2009.

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  There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

  Washington Irving

  Strength, Sad, Sympathy

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• I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

  Rachel Weisz

  Relationship, Horse, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

  Andre Gide

  Sound, Apathy

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• It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

  James A. Baldwin

  Book, Writing, People

  The New York Times, June 1, 1964.

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• We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Light, People, Suffering

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology.

  Karen Armstrong

  Love, Sympathy, God

  Karen Armstrong (2007). “The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness”, p.212, Anchor

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• There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

  Milan Kundera

  Pain, Compassion, Imagination

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.

  Alfred Adler

  Heart, Eye, Feelings

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• nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Compassion, Careers, Suffering

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• All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

  Billy Graham

  Life, Sympathy, Encouraging

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.119, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

  Roger Ebert

  Wisdom, Believe, Civilization

  Roger Ebert (2010). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2011”, p.1500, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

  Christian Bale

  Shoes, People, Acting

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• We all are born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as, how we were raised. We're kind of stuck inside that person, and the purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize a little bit with other people. And for me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. It lets you understand a little bit more about different hopes, aspirations, dreams and fears. It helps us to identify with the people who are sharing this journey with us.

  Roger Ebert

  Dream, Journey, Civilization

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• If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

  Henry Ford

  Success, Business, Lying

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• Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Attitude, Creative

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.72, Hachette UK

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• Empathy: Emptying our mind and listening with our whole being

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Listening, Mind

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• Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Faults, Criticize

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. The marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently.

  John Fowles

  Thinking, Imagination, Apathy

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• Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to die, or why Mr. Fortune and Mary Fortune: I just feel in my bones that that is the way it has to be. If I had the abstraction first I don't suppose I would write the story.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Apathy, Stories

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• Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity for the story, human feelings and a sense of value for the characters, intelligence and memory for the plot. What does fantasy ask of us? It asks us to pay something extra.

  E. M. Forster

  Memories, Character, Feelings

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• The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.

  Virginia Woolf

  Order, Mind, Apathy

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4523, Delphi Classics

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• I hope you don’t listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.

  Barack Obama

  Contracts, Concern, You Choose

  Barack Obama's Commencement Address at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, www.northwestern.edu. June 19, 2006.

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• I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.

  Natalie Portman

  Jobs, Fun, Mean

  "Inside the Actor's Studio". Interview with James Lipton, New School University, November 21, 2004.

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