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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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"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."
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"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched."
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"Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay."
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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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"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."
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"My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else."
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"It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy."
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"To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness."
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"Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right."
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"When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long."
People

"My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else."
Sympathy

"Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me."
Money

"When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some."
End

"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."
Musicians

"I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed."
Guitar

"From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto."
Time

"I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever."
Dream

"Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat."
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"I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again."
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