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• I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who is Czech and a patriot, cannot bear to hear me play them because he says I do it in such a schmalzy way, 'crying into the mouth organ'. I do not think I could have written the book on nationalism which I did write, were I not capable of crying, with the help of a little alcohol, over folk songs, which happen to be my favourite form of music.

  Ernest Gellner

  Song, Book, Writing

  "The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner". Book by John A. Hall, Ian Charles Jarvie, 1996.

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• Presumably there are energies, to which each human is sensitive, that we cannot yet detect by means of our instruments. Built into our brains and our bodies are very sensitive tuneable receivers for energies that we do not yet know about in our science but that each one of us can detect under the proper circumstances and the proper state of mind. We can tune our nervous systems and bodies to receive these energies. We can also tune our brains and bodies to transmit these energies.

  John C. Lilly

  Mean, Brain, Mind

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• My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are.

  Anton Corbijn

  Ideas, People, Trying

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• Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure: pain always asks concerning the cause, while pleasure is inclined to keep within itself and not look backward.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Mean, Suffering

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

  Al D'Amato

  Responsibility, Italian, Special

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• Lord, use me today, use me for your glory, make me bold, stir me up, give me eyes to see the needs of those I work with, give me a heart sensitive to those who are hurting, give me a prompting of the Spirit to minister to those who are around me.

  Craig Groeschel

  Hurt, Eye, Heart

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• Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.

  Isaac Watts

  Soul, Way, Sin

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• Who can estimate the real wealth that inheres in a fine character. . . . How base and mean money and huge estates look in comparison. All other things fade before it. Its touch is like magic to win friendship, influence, power. Can you afford to chill, to discourage, to crush out of your life this sweet, sensitive plant, which would flower in your nature and give added glory to your life, for the sake of a few dollars, a little questionable fame?

  Orison Swett Marden

  Life, Crush, Sweet

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• The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the wide-open eye which leads us to see truth more vividly, to apprehend more broadly, to concern ourselves more deeply, to be, all our life long, sensitive and awake to the powers and responsibilities given to us as human beings.

  Christopher Fry

  Life, Truth, Mean

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• Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?

  Zig Ziglar

  Positivity, Negative, Influence

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• In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people.

  Joel Dorman Steele

  Nature, People, Use

  Joel Dorman Steele (1872). “Fourteen Weeks in Chemistry”, p.223

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• Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive.

  Jean Louis

  Disappointment, Lying, Grief

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• My dog, Ginger, is jumpy-like me-sensitive to sound and sudden movement. She wasn't that way at first, but not long after we got her, my grandfather told me to stand still outside and hold her leash tight. Then he shot a gun off by our feet, several times. "This is how girls learn to obey," he said, "how to be seen and not heard."

  Mira Bartok

  Girl, Dog, Bullying

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• I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.

  Kim Novak

  Beautiful, Rights, Lovely

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

  Mo Rocca

  Issues, Conflict, Easier

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• We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hands, Mind, Half

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Today's sensitive male has learned to share in open frank discussions about relationships like, "Where the hell did you get a crazy idea like that? You been reading Redbook again?"

  Lewis Grizzard

  Crazy, Reading, Learning

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• The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.

  Ali Khamenei

  Rights, Issues, Fundamentals

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• Many people think in terms of either/or: either you're nice or you're tough. Win-win requires that you be both. It is a balancing act between courage and consideration. To go for win-win, you not only have to be empathic, but you also have to be confident. You not only have to be considerate and sensitive, you also have to be brave. To do that-to achieve that balance between courage and consideration-is the essence of real maturity and is fundamental to win-win.

  Stephen Covey

  Real, Nice, Maturity

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• Fasting keeps you sensitive to His (God) Spirit, enabling you to live holy.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Fasting, Enabling, Spirit

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• I suppose as an actor you become very sensitive to rhythm, not just rhythm as you look at it sort of from the, from the outside as a director might see it, but within yourself you become used to the idea of hearing your fellow actors, responding to them in space.

  Simon McBurney

  Ideas, Space, Theatre

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• A cat actually thinks visibly. If you watch him jump on a shelf, the wish to jump and the action of jumping are one and the same thing... It's in exactly the same way that all Brook's exercises try to train the actor. The actor is trained to become so organically related within himself, he thinks completely with his body. He becomes one sensitive, responding whole... The whole of him is one.

  John Heilpern

  Cat, Exercise, Thinking

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• The first years of life are not just important; they are more crucial to shaping children than any other time. Even before they speak, children are extremely sensitive to the messages adults send them.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Years, Important

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “It Takes a Village”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium. Those who see chess merely as a means of self-proof make the game experience uncomfortable and drive many of the better, more sensitive brains to analysis, correspondence, problems, studies and the like.

  Peter Abelard

  Mean, Self, Games

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• She never sat down in a car but stood, braced tense, facing the wind. Now and again she would turn her face toward me with an apologetic expression as though to say: "I have not forgotten that you are here but there are certain pleasures I cannot share with you." Her nose never ceased its sensitive quivering.

  Mazo de la Roche

  Funny, Dog, Travel

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