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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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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
"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."
"I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me."
"Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them."
"Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them."
"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."
"I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine."
Explore more quotes by William James
"What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!"
"These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
"Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done."
"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
"'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."
"The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals."
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