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"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."
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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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"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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"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."
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"A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice."
Emotional
"Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn."
Chance
"Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type."
Man
"Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards."
Society
"Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power."
Power
"If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama."
Democracy
"The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards."
Revolution
"According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication."
Virtue
"If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism."
Discipline
"Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon."
Being
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