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No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy. – Thomas Carlyle

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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. – Thomas Carlyle

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Humor
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Thomas Carlyle
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. – Thomas Carlyle

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Age
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Thomas Carlyle
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Seek first to understand and then to be understood. – Stephen Covey

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Understanding

I understand peoples suffering, peoples pain, more than you will every know yourself. – Princess of Wales Diana

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Understanding

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it. – Michael Davis

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The simplest explanation is that it doesnt make sense. – Professor William Buechner

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A good book has no ending. – R.D. Cumming

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No, Sir, it is a good thing; there is a community of mind in it. Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. – Samuel Johnson, quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell, Volume II

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Quotations

One thing, however, is sure, – that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free. – Benjamin Tucker

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Its so funny when youre actually directing because things start popping that you dont expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesnt quite have the impetus that you thought it might. – Stephen Moyer

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funny