"I forgive the many for the sake of the few, the living for the dead."

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Source : "The Story of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Augustus". Book by Mary Macgregor, 1900.

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#Forgiving Quotes

“My hunch, for what it's worth, is that most of us probably find it much, much harder than we realize to really imagine what catastrophe is like. I have a hunch that we all labor under this rather convenient illusion that if we read about the Syrian refugee crisis, we can imagine what it feels like to set off from your home and your life with all your possessions in two bin liners. We all think that we can imagine that and my guess is that none of us have got a clue.”

Source : "Decca Aitkenhead on Empathy and Memory". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2016.
“Release what no longer serves you to create a space for that which does. And yes, sometimes this even means people.”
“Support for shelters and transitional living and housing programs is necessary if we are going to change the landscape for homeless boys and girls in America.”
“Two men with a camera, thoughtfully observing the visual cacophony of one major thoroughfare and the complicated interplay of its history, its present, and the certainty of change, have laid the groundwork for a dialogue and a vision that reaches farther than human eyes can see.”
“Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemons off the tree! I don't want to forget who I am, what has burned in me, and hang limp and clean, an empty dress -”
“You have to get comfortable being uncomfortable... so that when we get our 15 minutes in the cage, we don't panic, we don't break down.”
“In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life expectancy since 1700s can be credited to twentieth-century advances in medical care.”

Source : Laurie Garrett (2003). “Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health”, p.9
“The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.”

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