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Perhaps the most guilty of enabling and encouraging Palestinian and Islamic / Arab victimhood and aggression have been the world community (through the UN) and the 'compassionate'-and often counterproductive -- foreign policy of Western democracies and of the Israelis themselves.— Sigmund, Carl and Alfred
I knew, for example, that President Bush felt differently than I did about immigration and I chafed at the term "compassionate conservatism" because it implied that conservatives were not, naturally, compassionate -- a notion I believe to be patently false.— Right Wing News
May Allah Ta'Ala make us all just and compassionate, and may we judge fairly always, even if it goes against our own.— MuslimMatters.org
We have to be more epathetic and compassionate, and stop assuming that our own sh*t doesn't stink.— The Red Tape Chronicles
When Jason Ray died last March (we'd dated for 3 years & only just broken up), Eve was so kind and compassionate, and gave me letters of sympathy that strangers had sent to her as our SBP.— Daily Tar Heel RSS

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