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"I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did."
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"We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people."

"But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy."

"Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help."

"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched."

"There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous."

"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."

"Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well."
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