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Sympathy Quotes
"Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion."
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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
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"Sympathy is the first condition of criticism."
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"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."
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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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"Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them."
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"And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud."
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"There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe."
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"I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before."
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"Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them."
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"Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well."
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"It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one."
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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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"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."
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"I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals."
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"California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?"
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"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched."
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"A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason."
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"He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it."
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"Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!"
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"Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain."
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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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"We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people."
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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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"Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin."
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"They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George."
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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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"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."
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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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"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."
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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 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 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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"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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