"Were we incapable of empathy â€“ of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own â€“ then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent."

-- Peter Singer

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“I did a study of soldiers returning from Iraq, and their levels of PTSD were much higher if they had had to shoot a woman or child, even if they knew the person was a suicide bomber.”
“"American Idol" has done a lot for me. It's a stepping stone in my life.”

Source : Interview with Nick Orlando, www.broadwayworld.com. March 16, 2006.
“People have fallen in love with words and lost the world. Itâ€™s time to regain it.”
“For me, it's easier to like more things than to dislike them; I'm not a critic in that sense. I find it easier to like more, to be more open and enjoy more things, which has given me more opportunities.”
“It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by.”
“He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.”
“Opposites attract - and then aggravate.”
“Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our impatience, then it races like a gazelle when you can't catch a breath.”

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