Take away someone’s fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty. . . and you take away their compassion. Take … - Veronica Roth

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I have a relationship with Christ. It allows me to handle situations better. It allows me to treat people better and it allows me to have a better mental attitude towards baseball.

Veronica Roth

Take away someone’s fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty. . . and you take away their compassion. Take away someone’s aggression and you take away their motivation, or their ability to assert themselves. Take away their selfishness and you take away their sense of self-preservation.

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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.

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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.

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My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.

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