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• Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the first lasted him from night to morning, indicating a sound body and a mind free from care; but his master, being unable to sleep himself awakened him, saying, "I am amazed, Sancho, at the torpor of thy soul; it seems as if thou wert made of marble or brass, insensible of emotion or sentiment!

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1866). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.681

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• There are two thing you need for a jolly good hymn.The first is a set of words that expresses the mood or sentiment of the worshipper.The second-and perhaps even more important- is a good tune..with a simple popular melody.

  John Betjeman

  Simple, Hymns, Two

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• There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Giving, Romance, Faces

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• The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.

  John F. Kennedy

  Real, Events, Purpose

  Speech at the Mormon Tabernacle, delivered 26 September 1963, Salt Lake City, Utah

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• The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

  Walter Lippmann

  Art, Patriotic, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.122, Harvard University Press

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• I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the
  living; tears for the dead.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Memorial Day, Cheer, Soldier

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3100, Library of Alexandria

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• Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mass

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• Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Character, Men, Giving

  Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1850). “The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: With Notices of His Life and Genius”, p.283

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• If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- My Heart Laid Bare. But -- this little book must be true to its title.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Honesty, Lying, Book

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Portable Edgar Allan Poe”, p.601, Penguin

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• The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

  Bertrand Russell

  Adults, Opinion, Instinct

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• It is my PRIDE, my damned, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 - 20th of my Composition is Pride. I must either live a Slave, a Servant; to have no Will of my own, no Sentiments of my own which I may freely declare as such; --or DIE --perplexing alternative!

  Thomas Chatterton

  Pride, Alternatives, Unconquerable Will

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• People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.

  Aloe Blacc

  People, Evil, Tolerance

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• Dante Alighieri has the most glorious imagination of modern poetry. So it's talking about us, it's concerning us. Everything in it conveys sentiment, emotions. He is really the greatest poet ever. So I am really very proud to present the shining pearl of Italian culture around the world.

  Roberto Benigni

  Italian, Imagination, Shining

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.

  Nuno Bettencourt

  Song, Writing, Two

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• The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this ME, the centre and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas.

  Madame de Stael

  Moving, Fire, Ideas

  "Germany" by Madame de Stael, Part III, Chapter II, 1813.

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• It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Pride, Suffering, Quality

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• A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.

  Bill Vaughan

  Character, Men, Judging

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• I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Love, Men, Thinking

  Louisa May Alcott (1997). “A Long Fatal Love Chase”, Thorndike Pr

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• Tout notre raisonnement se re  duit a'   ce  der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.

  Blaise Pascal

  Feelings, Reasoning

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• There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if we could once understand the common clay of earth we should understand everything. Similarly, we have the sentiment that if we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse. This is the great truth which has always lain at the back of baby-worship, and which will support it to the end.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Baby, Stars, Children

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• How few friends would remain friends if each could see the sentiments of the other in their entirety.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Few Friends, Ifs, Entirety

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• I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Desire, Quests, Belief

  Bertrand Russell, Andrew G. Bone (2005). “Détente Or Destruction, 1955-57”, p.83, Psychology Press

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• Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery.

  Bertrand Russell

  Spring, Long, Great Love

  Bertrand Russell, Nicholas Griffin (2002). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Private Years, 1884-1914”, p.46, Psychology Press

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• In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.

  Stendhal

  Ideas, Judging, Matter

  "De L'Amour (On Love)". Book by Stendhal ("Fragments"), 1822.

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• The Party leader at the time, Jiang Zemin, wanted to show the world China's new status. And in winning the bid, the leaders could show the people how strong the government was. Plus, the leadership wanted to use the Olympics to strengthen nationalist sentiment.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Strong, Party, Winning

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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