feel your pain

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(idea) by dirkg42 (6.5 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Thu Dec 21 2000 at 21:01:43

A phrase made famous by Bill Clinton when he first ran for president. The basic idea, as I understand it, is that by simply acknowledging another's pain it is lessened, with no need for further action.

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Guys who don't tell you they have a girlfriend	sympathy	Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Problem of Other Minds	ankylosing spondylitis
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depleted uranium	The Floater in the Grog	Things I need to tell my teenaged daughters about boys	Pain
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