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

"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."

"I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force."

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

"Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay."

"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."

"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."

"Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them."
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"I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow."

"Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support."

"I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say."

"I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle."

"It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality."

"People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got."

"If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?"

"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."

"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do."
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