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• My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wider world who need my help.

  Meryl Streep

  People, Empathy, Purpose

  Barnard College Commencement Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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• We have to understand in order to be of help. We all have pain, but we tend to suppress it, because we don't want it to come up to our living room. 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, but everyone is suffering, and no one wants to listen. We don't know how to express ourselves so that people can understand. because we suffer so much, the way we express our pain hurts other people, and they don't want to listen.

  Nhat Hanh

  Hurt, Pain, Order

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• Let us join together across denominations, religions and cultures to make a habit of empathy and reach out to those most in need. To share the blessings we enjoy and to advance the cause of peace in all corners of our world.

  Barack Obama

  Blessing, Our World, Empathy

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• Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The reader generally needs a single character as the means of perception, as the character to whom the events are happening, as the character with whom he is to empathize in order to have the events of the writing happen to him.

  John Ciardi

  Writing, Character, Mean

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• It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking powerful associations, by offering the right stimuli to our nerves (in the right degree and the right order), and by the very beat and vowel-melody and length and brevity of your sentences, you must bring it about that we, we readers, not you, exclaim, 'how mysterious!' or 'loathsome' or whatever it is. Let me taste for myself, and you'll have no need to tell me how I should react.

  C. S. Lewis

  Powerful, Offering, Order

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• The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Men, Empathy, Mind

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• But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now.

  Josephine Humphreys

  Empathy, Mood, Contagious

  Josephine Humphreys (2000). “The Fireman's Fair”, p.50, Penguin

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• I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

  Linda McCartney

  Simplicity, Answers, Simplifying Life

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• The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Men, Hands

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• The law of the fast benefits both those who fast and those who stand in need. . . . In addition to providing the means for taking care of the poor among us, fasting is a principle of power which helps us to individually achieve righteous purposes in our lives.

  Victor L. Brown

  Life, Mean, Law

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• Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

  Van Jones

  Champion, Climate, Giants

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• Our children and grandchildren are going to be mad at us for burning all this oil. It took the Earth 500 million years to create the stuff we're burning in 200 years. Renewable energy sources are where we need to be headed.

  Jack Edwards

  Children, Years, Oil

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• The fate of hundreds of thousands of species on this planet may be decided in the next decade. To slow the rush to extinction, we need to achieve real, substantive political power, and we need to get there fast.

  Eban Goodstein

  Real, Fate, Political

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• The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon.

  William H. Calvin

  Real, Focus, Political

  William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.165, William H. Calvin

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• We must start... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy.

  Jay Inslee

  Cities, Car, Energy

  Jay Inslee, Bracken Hendricks (2013). “Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy”, p.286, Island Press

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• What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to prevent it?

  Eric Chivian

  Climate, Degrees, Motivated

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• You need to really scrub your investment portfolios, because I guarantee you, many of you are going to find them chock-full of subprime carbon assets.

  Al Gore

  Climate, Guarantees, Portfolios

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• All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.

  William Albert Allard

  Eye, Personality, Brain

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• Being 'one flesh' in marriage means that the relationship is not the source of security, affirmation, control, or value. Those issues of identity need to be rooted in Christ.

  Scott Perkins

  Love, Marriage, Mean

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• We believed - and I personally still believe - that the so called Voice of God narration, ubiquitous in documentaries destined for PBS, is insulting to the audience. If you believe in the intelligence of your audience, you don't need to tell them what to think and how to process the material they're seeing.

  Jayne Loader

  Believe, Thinking, Pbs

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• One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in dressing, trifles. Needs increase because one thing calls for another. The result is uncontrollable dissatisfaction. Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.

  Mother Teresa

  Spring, Shopping, Luxury

  "No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition".

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• I'll tell you what you need to be a great scientist. You don't have to be able understand very complicated things. It's just the opposite. You have to be able to see what looks like the most complicated thing in the world and, in a flash, find the underlying simplicity. That's what you need: a talent for simplicity.

  Mitchell A. Wilson

  Opposites, Simplicity, Looks

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• Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer things to confuse users, less risk of user errors, less description and documentation, and therefore simpler Help content. Removing any one feature automatically increases the usability of the remaining ones.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Mean, Errors, Simplicity

  Jakob Nielsen, Hoa Loranger (2006). “Prioritizing Web Usability”, p.519, Pearson Education

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• Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Essence, Simplicity, Desire

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• There is a silence that matches our best possibilities when we have learned to listen to others. We can master the art of being quiet in order to be able to hear clearly what others are saying. . . . We need to cut off the garbled static of our own preoccupations to give to people who want our quiet attention.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Art, Cutting, Order

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