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Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.


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J. D. VANCE It would be great if people returned to areas of the country that need talented people with good eco...
J. D. VANCE It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural a...
J. D. VANCE The person in New York City is showing too little empathy for the Trump voter. The Trump voter is sh...
J. D. VANCE We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that...
J. D. VANCE The idea that working a blue-collar job and living in a working-class community provides barriers th...
J. D. VANCE Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and famil...
J. D. VANCE We need to think about how we teach working-class children about not just hard skills, like reading ...
J. D. VANCE We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine ...
J. D. VANCE We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks...
J. D. VANCE We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a...
J. D. VANCE I'm not a great band member; I'm more of a band leader.
J. D. SOUTHER Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of 'I'll Take Care of ...
J. D. SOUTHER I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm reall...
J. D. SOUTHER I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college,...
J. D. SOUTHER A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dix...
J. D. SOUTHER Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for...
J. D. SOUTHER I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is...
J. D. SOUTHER I don't think I ever thought of growing up to be anything other than a musician. There really wa...
J. D. SOUTHER I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't...
J. D. SOUTHER I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There&...
J. D. SOUTHER I was never much of a club guy. Even when I was in New York in the early eighties, I never was once ...
J. D. SOUTHER Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because w...
J. D. SOUTHER My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so...
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