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The daggers of silence last longer than anything ever spoken.

Shannon L. Alder
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people do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection

Natascha Kampusch , in 3,096 Days
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The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.

Shannon L. Alder
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She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.

Dean Koontz , in Forever Odd
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Narcissists only play for their own business, whereas Distortionists play with other’s business only to gain personal advantage. If you are both, then you aren’t an entrepreneur.

Ashish Patel
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She was so upset about a blog that maybe a total of six people read yet had no compassion for her granddaughters who had suffered the physical and emotional pains of sexual abuse and whose lives were changed forever. The two cannot even be compared, yet when someone is in denial about what happened, they cannot perceive what is true. It seemed too hard for her to let her mind go there and believe her grandson could do such terrible things.

Erin Merryn , in Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness
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