"The problem of empathy is pretty universal, and pretty much breaks down across America. People can't feel beyond their drawn borders. And skin color and culture have a lot to do with that."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Karan Mahajan

#People Quotes #Empathy Quotes #Skins Quotes

“God has a university. It's a small school. Few enroll; even fewer graduate.”

Source : Gene Edwards (2011). “A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness”, p.15, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“It's like you're surfing... The same wave that can be a source of pain can be a beautiful flowing grace and source of power. It's all a matter of how you respond to it.”
“I long to be out in the sun with no work to be done.”
“I had to give it a full go and see what happened.”
“Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.”

Source : Speech at Aarhus University, 11 Apr. 1956, in The Times 12 Apr. 1956
“Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.”
“To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.”
“The main thing right now is just going out and having fun. I know what I want to do. If I go out and have fun and relax, then all my goals should come true.”

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