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Definition
sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- The words "Oh, you're late" had the effect of making someone who was ordinarily compassionate into someone who was indifferent to suffering — of turning someone, in that particular moment, into a different person.Chapter 4 (92% in)
- They almost all say that the students who entered the ministry to help people and those reminded of the importance of compassion by having just read the parable of the Good Samaritan will be the most likely to stop.Chapter 4 (90% in)
There are no more uses of "compassion" in The Tipping Point.
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