"One doesnâ€™t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man."

-- Charles M. Blow

#Men Quotes #Empathy Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“I think a lot of people - to be candid about it - are like, if Donald Trump can be president, so can I. And I think there's a whole crop, a new generation of people who aren't on the tip of anyone's tongue, just like Bill Clinton wasn't on anyone's tongue; just like a lot of people didn't expect Barack Obama to take off like he did. I think we will have a lot of new people running, and there are obviously a lot of fantastic people who have run before, or standard-bearers, right. All right. So, I think there's just going to be a ton of those people.”
“The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.”

Source : Quoted in Louisville Courier-Journal, 4 July 1913.
“I bring people on stage with me. It's a good time, and people love to join in on the party. Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.”

Source : "Rob Van Winkle: 'Ice Ice Baby' never gets old" by Julieanne Smolinski, www.today.com. June 14, 2012.
“At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.”
“For the protection of the community, of individual life and health, there are some necessities that should be provided for all at the expense of all, such as roads, pure water, and sanitary systems for concentrated population, and reasonably comprehensive mail service. The determination between services that should be operated by the government and those which should be left to private enterprise under proper control should be governed by the degree of necessity to the community as a whole.”
“Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.”
“With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls.... Most of us assume there is something goodin every child; the critics go from this to assume there is something good in every book written for a child. It is not a sound theory.”
“I really hate pain. I'd pull my own soul out if it meant I could stop the pain.”

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