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“Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.”
Source : "Ignore the Young, Forget the Old" by Tavis Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2012. 
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“God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.”
Source : FaceBook post by Bob Goff from May 27, 2013
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“Being dead wasn't supposed to hurt. Where was the fairness in that? If I was dead, the least the universe could do was make it painless”
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“A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the West. Don't believe a word of this: try asking the children of Indochina who were dumped by their parents for inherited deformities that were attributed to sins in a previous 'life.”
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“only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased.”
Source : Helene Deutsch (1973). “Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue”, W. W. Norton
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“I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.”
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“Peace on earth and good will toward men - that is something we need to work on. Like Nelson Mandela, we should learn from him.”
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“I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.”
