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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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"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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"Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!"
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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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"The more sympathy you give, the less you need."
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"My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else."
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"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."
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"Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them."
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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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"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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"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."
God
"In married life three is company and two none."
Life
"Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
Philosophy
"For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood."
Philosophy
"God and other artists are always a little obscure....."
God
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
Philosophy
"Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development."
Philosophy
"I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked."
Philosophy
"There is a great deal to be said in favour of reading a novel backwards. The last page is as a rule the most interesting, and when one begins with the catastrophe or the dA©nouement one feels on pleasant terms of equality with the author. It is like going behind the scenes of a theatre. One is no longer taken in, and the hair-breadth escapes of the hero and the wild agonies of the heroine leave one absolutely unmoved. One knows the jealously guarded secret, and one can afford to smile at the quite unnecessary anxiety that the puppets of fiction always consider it their duty to display."
Literature
"There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful."
Philosophy
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