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"A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy."
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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
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"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."
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"I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me."
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"Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them."
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"Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them."
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"I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals."
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"September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world."
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"I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine."
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"There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate."
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"Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load."
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"To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority."
Science
"Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols."
Work
"It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views."
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"In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor."
Science
"Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist."
Literature
"If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again."
Theory
"If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good."
Power
"Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions."
Decision-Making
"Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability."
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"The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions."
Concern
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