"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."

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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."

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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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"In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion."

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

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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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"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."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long."

Richard Russo, American Novelist

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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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"There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

Sympathy, Affliction, Emotion, Humanity

"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."

John Irving, American Novelist

Sympathy, People, Fact, Laughter

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