Norm Phelps Quotes
Buddhism cannot be true to itself until Buddhists resolve their ambivalence toward nonhuman animals and extend the full protection of their compassion to the most harmless and helpless of those who live at our mercy in the visible realms.
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One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
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When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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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.
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If the Reddit community cannot learn to balance authenticity and compassion, it may be a great website, but it will never be a truly great community.
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There is not adequate whistleblower protection.
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When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.
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If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.
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The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.
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Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.
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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we behave.
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I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organism or a behavior that no one has ever seen before. But I have always wondered about the animals and behaviors that we're not seeing because our bright lights and loud thrusters scare them away.
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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.
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It is a mistake to do nothing just because you think you can only do a little.
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When Israel, of the Lord belov'd,Out of the land of bondage came,Her fathers' God before her mov'd,An awful guide in smoke and flame.
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It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate.
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We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.
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New York is really the cheapest ad market. When I go on TV, I'm hitting a country. The market is as big as some countries, you know.
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Buddhism cannot be true to itself until Buddhists resolve their ambivalence toward nonhuman animals and extend the full protection of their compassion to the most harmless and helpless of those who live at our mercy in the visible realms.
