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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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"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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"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."
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"If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?"
Money
"Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks."
Heart
"Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever."
Time
"Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!"
Chance
"The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall."
Power
"I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog."
Man
"You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas."
Hell
"I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty."
Nation
"Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them."
Party
"We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money."
Money
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