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"Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well."
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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
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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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"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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"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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"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."
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"It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world."
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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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"Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for."
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"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."
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"Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes."
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"It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction."
Destruction

"Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood."
Gratitude

"Animosity is not a policy."
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"Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive."
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"The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit."
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"We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world."
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"I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations."
Nation

"We should never suffer Cuba to pass from the hands of Spain to any other European power."
Power

"I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations."
Patriotism
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