Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A few of them, like Manson, also found other advantages to being a hippie. The true gentle folk were relatively defenseless. Leaderless, they responded readily to strong leaders. But how could children who had dropped out for the sake of kindness and sharing, love and beauty, be enjoined to kill...
And merciless. They do not know Compassion, and if they did, We should not be worthy of it. . .
At heart most of us want to follow the right and fair path which might lead us to greater compassion with each other's failings and fairness in our dealings with all men.
That is undoubtedly part of it. "The price of eternal vigilance," says Marshall McLuhan, "is indifference." In the same way, the cost of constant excitement, of a persistent and violent rearrangement of one's sense of order, results in surfeit. The mind is overcome by a kind of compassion...
Mathias felt that the Haynsworth nomination was an appeal to sectionalism and to the right. He also believed that it threatened the court's standards. So he cast his negative vote-but with sorrow. "It's been such a tough ordeal because you wanted to stick with the...