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  • Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
  • If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.
  • There is no dignity without work. You can't tell someone who has nothing to eat to stay patient.
  • A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clear
  • The studio is really fun because I don't make it into the studio unless I've got something I really like. I love working with different musicians in the studio; that's a real joy, working with someone for the first time.
  • When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him.
  • To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
  • The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
  • One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
  • What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
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  • Geoffrey F. Abert When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
    Geoffrey F. Abert
    American author
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  • Iris Murdoch Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Erma Bombeck It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
    Erma Bombeck
    American writer (1927 - 1996)
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  • Groucho Marx A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Ezra Pound A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
    Leon Harris - The Fine Art of Political Wit (1964)
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Louis D. Brandeis Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
    Louis D. Brandeis
    American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court (1856 - 1941)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Mother Teresa Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Robert Anthony Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.
    Robert Anthony
    American psychologist and self-help writer
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  • Robert Burns I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Marilyn Monroe It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Marilyn Monroe It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Pat Barker It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.
    Pat Barker
    British writer (1943 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Warren Buffett Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Les Brown Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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