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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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"To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness."
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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."
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"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched."
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"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."
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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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"Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well."
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"Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load."
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"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."
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"Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them."
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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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"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."
Musicians

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

"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."
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

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

"When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long."
People

"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

"Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them."
Folk

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