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• Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined.

  Frederick Douglass

  Country, Zealous, Dull

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.621, Chicago Review Press

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• Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian nation, it became a genuine drama. Tens of millions of our co-citizens and co-patriots found themselves outside Russian territory.

  Vladimir Putin

  Drama, Russia, Epidemics

  "Prince Charles is right: Similarites between Putin and Hitler are uncanny" Rep. Trent Franks, www.foxnews.com. May 23, 2014.

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• A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Hands, Growth

  Woodrow Wilson (2016). “The New Freedom: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.117, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• The actress I had the most fun working with was Alex Kingston. It was a fun relationship to play because it was a combination of occasional sexual harrassment with genuine affection. She's such a terrific actress and such a lovely person.

  Paul McCrane

  Fun, Play, Lovely

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• Stories come from violence, they come from sex. They come from death. They come from the dark places that everyone has to go to, kind of wants to, or doesn't, but needs to deal with. If you raise a kid to think everything is sunshine and flowers, they're going to get into the real world and die. That's the reason fairy tales are so creepy, because we need to encapsulate these things, to inoculate ourselves against them, so that when we're confronted by the genuine horror that is day-to-day life we don't go insane.

  Joss Whedon

  Sex, Real, Flower

  "Joss Whedon: Conversations". Book by Cynthia Burkhead, March 29, 2011.

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• The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and His work become the one and only thing that is vital between us.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Community, Christ

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.14, SCM Press

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• Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream… Every human wish dream that is injected into the Christian community is a hindrance to genuine community and must be banished if genuine community is to survive. He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Dream, Broken

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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 through the magic of imagination, creates this shock of recognition. Without this empathy there can be no genuine dialogue, and we as individuals and nations will remain isolated and alien, segregated and fragmented.

  Azar Nafisi

  Fate, Shoes, Imagination

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• I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.

  G. M Gilbert

  Men, Thinking, Evil

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• I recommend allowing others the opportunity to fully express themselves before turning our attention to solutions or requests for relief. When we proceed too quickly to what people might be requesting, we may not convey our genuine interest in their feelings and needs; instead, they may get the impression that we're in a hurry to either be free of them or to fix their problem. Furthermore, an initial message is often like the tip of an iceberg; it may be followed by yet unexpressed, but related - and often more powerful - feelings.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Powerful, Opportunity, People

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• The more authentic you become, the more genuine in your expression, particularly regarding personal experiences and even self-doubts, the more people can relate to your expression and the safer it makes them feel to express themselves. That expression, in turn, feeds on the other person's spirit, and genuine creative empathy takes place, producing new insights and learnings and a sense of excitement and adventure that keeps the process going.

  Stephen Covey

  Adventure, Self, Expression

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.377, Mango Media Inc.

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• We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one.

  Marc Chagall

  Artist, Good Person, Humans

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• There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease.

  Washington Irving

  Thank You, Heart, Ease

  Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author”, p.288

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• Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such as to give a reasonable result of a healthy child -- this would afford a very good inducement to some sort of care for the race, and gradually as public opinion became educated by the law, it might react on the law and make that more stringent, until one got to some state of things in which there would be a little genuine care for the race, instead of the present haphazard higgledy-piggledy ways.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Race, Law

  Bertrand Russell, Nicholas Griffin (2002). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Private Years, 1884-1914”, p.125, Psychology Press

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• Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.

  Rod Stryker

  Love, Compassion, Frustrated

  "'Tantra Unveiled – An Interview with Pandit Rajmani Tigunait'". Interview with Rod Stryker, www.parayoga.com. September 25, 2000.

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• When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse. When I think of the person that I now see is 100 percent politician, I think he's sorry he got caught.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Sorry, Thinking, Bills

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• Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

  Archibald Cox

  Country, Weakness, Judgment

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• Each of us has a genuine capacity for love, forgiveness, wisdom and compassion. Meditation awakens these qualities so that we can discover for ourselves the unique happiness that is our birthright.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Unique, Compassion, Meditation

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• One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.

  Mark Thomas

  Believe, Mushrooms, Police

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• There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a problem

  Brett Brown

  Basketball, Pride, Nba

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• Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Inspirational, Kindness, Two

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• Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him from the sentiments of his people, which as a statesman he was bound to respect, then his actions were swift, bold, radical and decisive. Taking the man in the whole, balancing the tremendous magnitude of the situation, and the necessary means to ends, Infinite Wisdom has rarely sent a man into the world more perfectly suited to his mission than Abraham Lincoln.

  Frederick Douglass

  War, Mean, Men

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• But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.

  Edmund Burke

  Eye, Leader, Curiosity

  Edmund Burke, T. O. McLoughlin, Paul Langford, James T. Boulton (1997). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings”, p.168, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Light, Darkness, Sun

  Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.), Saint John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff (1905). “A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: St. Chrysostom: Homilies on Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, and Philemon”

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• What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly as possible, to resemble the false.

  Guy Debord

  Taste, Eliminating

  Guy Debord (1998). “Comments on the Society of the Spectacle”, p.50, Verso

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