A lawyer's empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom?

Ron Suskind
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  2. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa

  3. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. - Dalai Lama Xiv

  4. As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap... - Pythagoras

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  1. You can actually herd cats. They can't be forced, of course. But if they sense something they want, if there enticed by something good, they'll follow, even in herds.

  2. Moral action — humble and honest — is the tribute that power must at some point pay to reason.

  3. Life-shaping institutions tend to start with an idea or revelation. They often become mostly about the preservation and expansion of authority, something they relinquish only with the greatest reluctance.

  4. In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them.

  5. He was rebuilt, reconstituted by vengeance dressed up as high purpose.

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