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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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"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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"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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"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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"They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George."
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"People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other."
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"Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it."
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"You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound."
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"Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on."
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"I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine."
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"There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it."
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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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"If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character."
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"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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"I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hates."
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