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• Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants these policies are a recipe for stagnation.

  James Surowiecki

  Doors, Tough Times, Recipes

  "The Track-Star Economy". www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2012.

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• I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong were these impulses that I indulged myself by thinking that if I could not have him whom I admired whom I will admit it now when I would not before I loved then I would never want another. However those are sentiments best saved for one of Lily's romances. The heart is a far more practical thing and in its life is happily capable of more than a single attachment.

  Galen Beckett

  Strong, Heart, Thinking

  Galen Beckett (2008). “The Magicians and Mrs. Quent”, p.310, Bantam

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• But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves alone. We all take on Napoleon's features, And millions of our fellow creatures Are nothing more to us than tools... Since feelings are for freaks and fools. Eugene, of course, had keen perceptions And on the whole despised mankind, Yet wasn't, like so many, blind; And since each rule permits exceptions, He did respect a noble few, And, cold himself, gave warmth its due.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Hero, Men, Feelings

  Alexander Pushkin (1998). “Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse”, p.41, OUP Oxford

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• Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Men, Logic, Ready

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “Jo's Boys: Top Novelist Focus”, p.69, 谷月社

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• I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock. 'I scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer: yes, St. John, and I scorn you when you offer it.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Rocks, Ideas, Rose

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.332, Penguin

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• Whenever I hear people utter anti-German sentiments, I say: You can't blame Germany for defending its own interests.

  Marine Le Pen

  People, Germany, Blame

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

  James Otis

  Hero, Citizens, Patriot

  "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.

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• I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling.

  Josh Radnor

  Feelings, Skins, Sugar

  "Josh Radnor Exclusive Interview HAPPYTHANKYOUMOREPLEASE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times in which they were created. Unfortunately, previous eras and dead authors often used language or accepted as normal sentiments that we now find unacceptable.

  Jane Smiley

  Reading, Play, Eras

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• Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.

  Cat Stevens

  War, Nice, Europe

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• We are more often than not asked, for instance, to regard Israel and Palestine as in a conflict of this kind, a framing that sets each of them on equal footing, and implicitly analogies the political situation to a fist fight, a soccer match, or a domestic quarrel. So if, then, the only two intelligible political positions are "pro-Palestinian" or "pro-Israeli," the presumption is that one's position is determined by a sentiment that wants one side to win over the other.

  Judith Butler

  Soccer, Fighting, Winning

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of that ancient Greek who wanted to die under the brilliant sun. What I wanted was some natural, spontaneous suicide. I wanted a death like that of a fox, not yet well versed in cunning, that walks carelessly along a mountain path and is shot by a hunter because of its own stupidity.

  Yukio Mishima

  Suicide, Sky, Stupidity

  Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, New Directions Publishing

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• Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.

  Ian Fleming

  Men, Cold, Harsh

  Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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• I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care much for me. For when I say that I am of his kind, I do not mean that I have his force to influence, and his spell to attract: I mean only that I have certain tastes and feelings in common with him.I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered: - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Mean, Thinking, Forever

  Charlotte Bronte (2017). “Jane Eyre”, p.190, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sweet, Memories, Real

  Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor”, p.219, Harper Collins

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• In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

  Walter Lippmann

  Passion, Men, Office

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.464, Harvard University Press

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• High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Culture, Sentimental, Paranoid

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• Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory, to the purely secular moral sentiment and interpersonal reaction theories of Smith and Hume, to Kant's attempt to restore command theory but with something supersensible in the individual rather than God as the source of authority.

  Catherine Wilson

  Christian, Philosophy, Moral

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching him as a drowning woman might clutch another person to save her life. Don't don't don't don't leave me. DON'T LEAVE ME. As in animal copulation the frenzy is to be locked together not out of sentiment or choice but physical compulsion. As if bolts of electric current ran through both their bodies and would only release them from each other when it ceased.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sex, Animal, Men

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• Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Falling In Love, Trying, One Hundred Years Of Solitude

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• There are two men in each one of us: the scientist, he who starts with a clear field and desires to rise to the knowledge of Nature through observations, experimentation and reasoning, and the man of sentiment, the man of belief, the man who mourns his dead children, and who cannot, alas, prove that he will see them again, but who believes that he will, and lives in the hope – the man who will not die like a vibrio, but who feels that the force that is within him cannot die.

  Louis Pasteur

  Children, Believe, Men

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• What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Hero, Brave

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when love is in question, the suddenness of certain happy solutions, such as had been brought to me by Gilberte's letter. Happy, or at least seemingly happy, for there are few that can really be happy when we are dealing with a sentiment of such a kind that any satisfaction we can give it does no more, as a rule, than dislodge some pain. And yet sometimes a respite is granted us, and we have for a little while the illusion of being healed.

  Marcel Proust

  Pain, Eye, Love Is

  Marcel Proust (1981). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove”, New York : Random House

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• Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tea Drinking, People, Tea Party

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.281, Рипол Классик

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• Neither said anything while they embraced. Sometimes words didn't go far enough, the vessels of letters and the ladles of grammar incapable of holding the heart's sentiments.

  J.R. Ward

  Heart, Letters, Sometimes

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.1421, Penguin

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