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One reason we rush so quickly to the vulgar satisfactions of judgement, and love to revel in our righteous outrage, is that it spares us from the impotent pain of empathy, and the harder, messier work of understanding.


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TIM O'REILLY I started to do stop-motion when I was a kid. You take a Super 8 and make some models, and move, cli...
TIM BURTON What's so amazing in today's society is people look up to football players. And as a footbal...
TIM TEBOW I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet ...
TIM O'BRIEN For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members o...
TIM WISE I had the opportunity to go into the hospitals and talk to kids and see a kid and make him smile. Wh...
TIM TEBOW Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Wh...
TIM O'BRIEN The Atlanta Braves are really all that our children know about this crazy baseball life, and we are ...
TIM HUDSON You feel like a stud out there when people swing and miss. As I've gotten older, I've preach...
TIM HUDSON Sure, I like ice cream, but when you keep a healthy lifestyle, it's: Do you prefer sweets and cr...
TIM HOWARD I really try to enjoy life and have joy with what I do.
TIM TEBOW Let your joy be in your journey - not in some distant goal.
TIM COOK I don't complain when it's sunny.
TIM HOWARD We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.
TIM TEBOW Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as t...
TIM JACKSON I'm not perfect. I'm never going to be. And that's the great thing about living the Chri...
TIM TEBOW Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.
TIM CAHILL America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War.
TINY TIM Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for someb...
TIM HETHERINGTON