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There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion. ↗

— William Nicholson

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The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

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You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving. ↗

— Ted Olson

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I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well. ↗

— Joel Osteen

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Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion. ↗

— Major Owens

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Your inner knowing is your only true compass. ↗

— Joy Page

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Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice. ↗

— Mark Pryor

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When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them. ↗

— Ramakrishna

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