"Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn. It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his emotions are but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxurious quiet. But unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble."

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Source : Thomas Noon Talfourd (1848). “Critical and Miscellaneous Writings”, p.5

Thomas Noon Talfourd

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“Yeah, I play a lot of point guard. LeBron plays a lot of point guard. A lot of people are thinking too much on positions.”
“At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the abstract branches of science, mathematics and theoretical physics, which ... offer a less distorted form of knowledge than other branches of science which are interwoven with the pattern of daily life, and the practicality of which seemingly testifies to their realistic character.”
“I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.”
“Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.”
“The absolute truth is that the 'I' is perfect and complete; the real 'I' is spiritual and can therefor never be less than perfect; it can never have any lack, limitation, or disease.”
“The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.”

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“To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.”
“To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.”

Source : Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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