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• We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest thought, the noblest sentiments of the age in which we live.

  Felix Adler

  Children, Age, Needs

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I'm an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn't just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.

  Michael Caine

  Blood, Looks, Emotion

  "Q & A: Oscar-Winning Michael Caine Asks “Is Anybody There?”". Interview with Brad Balfour,, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2009.

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• Sex becomes violent when you eliminate all the sentiments... voila, it gets crude.

  Bruno Dumont

  Sex, Violent, Crude

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I love "Heartbreaker." "Heartbreaker" stands up for me still. It still works to me. The sentiment is still timely and it just works. But I don't want to do that again. I'm not interested in re-creating that. That was great and I'll just leave it there.

  Pat Benatar

  Creating, Want, Heartbreaker

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

  David Hume

  Understanding, Criticism, Taste

  David Hume (1826). “And the human understanding. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. Appendix. The natural history of religion”, p.192

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• Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Expression, Insane, Lessons

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.57, Harvard University Press

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• It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment.

  John Constable

  Names, Keys, Sky

  John Walker, John Constable (1978). “John Constable”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• The United States, after all, was founded by men of liberal sentiment who were seeking to promote the greatest good for the greatest number, by creating a constitutional order for the creation and expansion of liberty.

  Douglas Massey

  Men, Order, Creating

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture.

  Mili Avital

  Israel, Blood, Culture

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

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• Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Expression, Moral

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• A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Love, Country, Son

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.58, Cosimo, Inc.

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• He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Past, Long

  Samuel Johnson (2002). “A Johnson Sampler”, Non Pareil Books

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• What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.

  John Dickinson

  Public Opinion, May, Individual

  John Dickinson (1801). “The Political Writings of John Dickinson, Esquire: Late President of the State of Delaware, and of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania”, p.72

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• I am not a complete idiot, but whether from weakness or laziness have no talent for thinking. I know only how to reflect: I am a mirror. Logic does not exist for me. I float on the waves of art and life and never really know how to distinguish what belongs to the one or the other or what is common to both. Life unfolds for me like a theatre presenting a sequence of somewhat unreal sentiments; while the things of art are real to me and go straight to my heart.

  Sviatoslav Richter

  Art, Real, Thinking

  "Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations". Book by Bruno Monsaingeon, 2001.

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• As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment never let up.

  Barbara Kruger

  Princess, Media, Insane

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• It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live

  Sarah McLachlan

  Romantic, Writing, Thinking

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• California is the most reactionary state in America. Fascist sentiments are very strong here.

  Ilya Ilf

  Strong, California, America

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• In the world of football and of sport in general there is still a taboo around homosexuality. Everyone ought to live freely with themselves, their desires and their sentiments. “We must all work for a sporting culture that respects the individual in every manifestation of his truth and freedom.

  Cesare Prandelli

  Sports, Football, Desire

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• The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about The Dark Knight's dread (that teenage thrall with subversion) inspires their fealty to product.

  Armond White

  Teenage, Dark, Past

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• Tut, tut. We can't let mere sentiment intrude. This is Science.

  K. W. Jeter

  Let Me, Mere

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• I understand the sentiments of the Palestinians when they see the settlements being built. The meaning from the Palestinian perspective is that Israel takes more land, that the Palestinian state will be impossible, the Israel policy is to take more and more land day after day and that at the end of the day we’ll say that it is impossible, we already have the land and cannot create the state.

  Tzipi Livni

  Israel, Land, Perspective

  "Open door: Misleading pullquotes" by Chris Elliott, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2011.

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• I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Religious, Organization, Political

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• It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ. Were this sentiment generally admitted we should not see such tenacious adherence to what men deem the opinions and doctrines of Christ while at the same time in every day practise is exhibited anything but a likeness to Christ.

  Lucretia Mott

  Christian, Men, Doctrine

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• It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.

  George Santayana

  Friendship, Sight, Giving

  George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

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• Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Work, Way, Ambiguous

  Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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