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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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"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."
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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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"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."
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"And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud."
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"A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason."
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"Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them."
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"Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well."
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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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"Sympathy is the first condition of criticism."
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"A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy."
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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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"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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"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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"Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them."
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"I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before."
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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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"We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people."
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"I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did."
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"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."
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"Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!"
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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 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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"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."
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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 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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