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"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."
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"I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one."
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"I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with."
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"And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud."
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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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"Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!"
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"There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate."
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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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"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."
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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
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"I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls."
Sympathy
"For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God."
Religion
"I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how."
Thought
"On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned."
Work
"Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic."
Marxism
"I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity."
Life
"At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming."
Progress
"Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off."
Test
"In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two."
Christianity
"This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet."
Christian
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