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Sweet Evelyn, I think, I should have loved you better. Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to bits. I see his rough childhood. I see his mother doing something horrid to him with a broomstick. I see the hate in his heart and the people he had yet to kill before pneumonia gets him at eighty-three. I see the dead kid's mom unable to sleep, pounding her fists against her face in grief at the moment I was burying her son's hand. I see the pain I've caused. I see the man I could have been, and the man I was, and then everything is bright and new and keen with love and I sweep through Sam's body, trying to change him, trying so hard, and feeling only hate and hate, solid as stone. ↗

— George Saunders

#compassion #empathy #forgiveness #hatred #change

For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#business community #community #europe #good #i

The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart. ↗

— Henry Cisneros

#been #business #complicates #decision #heart

I always think that I've embarrassed myself. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#embarrassed #i #i always #myself #think

As a kid, I was told to talk as much as possible. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#kid #much #possible #talk #told

I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#attention #find #food #healthier #i

We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#could #make #married #new #new world

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#clumsy #consider #elegance #essential #further

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#aid #always #american #american people #being

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job. ↗

— Tom Cochrane

#done #feel #job #less #little