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Aneurin Bevan

"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 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'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name."

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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."

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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."

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"Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience."

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"The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy."

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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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