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"It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either."
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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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for."
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"If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character."

"People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other."

"It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest."
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