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We do not increase compassion by expanding it to cover anything. Instead, we kill a good word by making it mean too much, and nothing.

Marvin Olasky

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Marvin Olasky
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 12
Editor
Journalist
Malden
Massachusetts
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Compassion
Instead
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Anything
Expanding
Nothing
Cover
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Kill

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