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"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."
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"Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!"
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"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."
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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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"Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load."
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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."
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"And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud."
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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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"We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people."
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"There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right word, literally, is 'sympathy' - sym-pathos, common passion. This means that friendships are discovered more than they are created at will."
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"For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be."
God
"Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit."
Christianity
"The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians."
Christianity
"It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism."
Fanaticism
"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
"At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming."
Progress
"My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely."
Age
"The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge."
Spiritual
"My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston."
Religion
"Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity."
Family
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