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"I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name."
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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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"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."
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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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"I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force."
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"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched."
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"September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world."
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"Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay."
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"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."
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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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"In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion."
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"Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people."
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"Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV."
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"Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen."
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"Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters."
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"Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable."
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"The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience."
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"It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them."
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"Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account."
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"Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational."
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"Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives."
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