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Only an intervention by women around the world, with their innate knowledge of interdependency, deep listening, empathy and self-sacrifice, could possibly alter our species' desperate course.

~Anohni

Topics: Alter Around Could Course Deep Desperate Empathy Innate Intervention Knowledge Listening Only Our Possibly Self-Sacrifice Species Women World

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Mr. Trump's and Mr. Osteen's brands are rooted in success, not Scripture. Believers in prosperity like winners. Hurricanes and catastrophic floods do not provide the winning narratives crucial to keep adherents chained to prosperity gospel thinking. That is why it is easy for both men to issue platitudes devoid of empathy during natural disasters.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: Believers Both Brands Catastrophic Chained Crucial Devoid Disasters Easy Empathy Floods Gospel Hurricanes Issue Keep Like Men Narratives Natural Natural Disasters Platitudes Prosperity Provide Rooted Scripture Success Thinking Trump Why Winners Winning Mr

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When I came to the last line of 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking,' I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story's language.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Act Behind Came Car Collision Crash Empathy Family Help Hiding Indifference Language Last Line Read Refusal Spared Statement Story Warn While I Came

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A novel can enlarge the empathy and imagination of both its author and its reader, and my experience, that sense of enlargement is most intense when I'm transported beyond the narrow limits of my daily life.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Author Beyond Both Daily Daily Life Empathy Enlargement Experience Imagination Intense Life Limits Most Narrow Novel Reader Sense

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Empathy is not as complicated when you have some aspects in common with your character; it's not impossible to know someone who's like you in many ways but different in one. This is true especially if you are a reader. Reading makes you accustomed to inhabiting other lives and sensibilities.

~Antonya Nelson

Topics: Accustomed Aspects Character Common Complicated Different Empathy Impossible Know Like Lives Makes Many Other Reader Reading Sensibilities Some Someone True Ways You Your

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The thing that enchants me the most is the ability women have to feel other people's pain. The total empathy that women have is extraordinary.

~Ashton Kutcher

Topics: Ability Empathy Extraordinary Feel Me Most Other Pain People Thing Total Women

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We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

~Barack Obama

Topics: African-American Criterion Disabled Empathy Gay Got Heart Judges Like Mom Need Old Poor Recognize Selecting Somebody Teenage Understand Which Young

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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Both Capacity Else Empathy Every Lost Meaningful Meanness Opposite Own Pain Really Someone Spiritual Understand War Won Your

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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Another Ask Creates Empathy Eyes Fiction Good Life Live Look Novel Person Somewhere Takes Through You

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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Another Behave Creation Empathy How Influences Literature Necessarily Other People Psyche Sucks You

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