Empathy means knowing ourselves and taking a sincere interest in what makes others tick.

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He said that there seemed to be sincere interest in avoiding constant crisis, sincere interest expressed by the participants in the dinner.

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Such awareness of cultural nuances illustrate respect and sincere interest, says Roll.

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Did she show sincere interest in your service or product?

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So if a wigger is somebody who maintains this distance from black people, a wegro is somebody who actually has a sincere interest in the trying to transcend these artificial racial boundaries that have stood between us for so long.

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And the President would gladly engage with Congress if there was a demonstration of a sincere interest by Republicans to act on the DREAM Act because, as he made clear on Friday, the enforcement decisions that were made by the Secretary of DHS did not represent in any way a permanent solution to this problem.

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Idzik said during a conference call that New York wasn't proactively shopping Revis, but Tampa Bay had "sincere and sustained" interest.

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What connects these and other examples is not Mr D'Amato's interest (sincere though it conceivably may be) in the outside world, but his concern for New York or rather for its voters.

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If the plans are indeed sincere, Apple may be taking a cue from the interest the market already has shown in such a product.

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