I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.
Lionel Blue
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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all. -
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We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. -
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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