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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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"Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help."
"Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay."
"Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them."
"California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?"
"More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic."
"Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well."
"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."
"He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it."
"There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right word, literally, is 'sympathy' - sym-pathos, common passion. This means that friendships are discovered more than they are created at will."
"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."
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"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
"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."
"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."
"There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse."
"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."
"Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, of doubting, or refusing to believe, that a certain thing is, is continuing to act as if it were not."
"Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it."
"Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not."
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