{"quotes":[{"text":"Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","aphorism","aphorisms","appreciate","appreciation","axiom","axioms","bighearted","callous","caring","charitable","cold","cold-hearted","compassionate","considerate","cruel","death","deep","dictum","dictums","empathetic","epigram","epigrams","gnome","gnomes","hard-hearted","heartless","humane","humor","humour","inconsiderate","inhuman","insensitive","insightful","kind","lenient","life","life-partner","life-partners","love","lover","lovers","loving","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mean-spirited","merciful","merciless","need","needs","pitiless","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","remind","reminder","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","sensitive","solicitous","stony-hearted","sympathetic","take-for-granted","thought-provoking","thoughtful","tolerant","uncaring","unconcerned","understanding","unfeeling","unkind","unsympathetic","want","wants","warm","waste"],"id":82793,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country?","author":"Mike Norton","tags":["buddhist","christian","citizen","communism","compassion","country","dalai-lama","dependence","experience","forgiveness","humanitarianism","islam","muslim","peace","rape","religion","resilient","socialism","soft","soldier","strong","the-pope","tolerance","tolerant","training","war","world"],"id":105970,"author_id":"Mike+Norton"},{"text":"Give everyone room to mess up so that when they do you won't be disappointed and if they don't you'll be impressed.","author":"TemitOpe Ibrahim","tags":["benefit-of-doubt","disappoint","disappointed","eliminate-issues","give","impress","impressed","inspirational","inspire","life-lessons","living","mess-up","mistake","people","room","room-for-error","room-to-mess-up","save-yourself","save-yourself-headaches","stress","tolerant","truth","unnecessary-stress","usual-behavior","word"],"id":296710,"author_id":"TemitOpe+Ibrahim"},{"text":"In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.","author":"Matthew Kelly","tags":["conversation","debate","discussion","ego","open-mind","open-minded","outcome","perspective","pride","productive","selfish","talk","tolerant"],"id":460927,"author_id":"Matthew+Kelly"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}