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• We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.

  Agnes Repplier

  Intelligent, Conversation, Vistas

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• These people also tended to pretend to care deeply about the blind and otherwise disabled. I am sympathetic to the needs of those users, but I can't help but think that those who claimed to speak for the blind were being more than a little disingenuous, just like those Hemp people who present their arguments in terms of their deep and abiding care for the textile industry, when their real motives are ... something else entirely.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Real, Thinking, People

  "The Markup Wars". www.jwz.org. 2003.

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• Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.

  Bill Vaughan

  Power, Band, Drumming

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• My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me.

  Donal Logue

  Character

  "Donal Logue Talks SONS OF ANARCHY, How His Role Came About and His Possible Return Next Season, Plus His Experience in VIKINGS and SILENT NIGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 4, 2012.

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• Can Ken Starr ignore the apparent breadth of the sympathetic response to the President's speech? Facially, it finally dawned on me that the person Ken Starr has reminded me of facially all this time was Heinrich Himmler, including the glasses. If he now pursues the President of the United States, who, however flawed his apology was, came out and invoked God, family, his daughter, a political conspiracy and everything but the kitchen sink, would not there be some sort of comparison to a persecutor as opposed to a prosecutor for Mr. Starr?

  Keith Olbermann

  Daughter, Apology, Glasses

  "Olbermann Compares Bush White House to Clinton's 'White House in Crisis'" by Brent Baker, www.newsbusters.org. October 21, 2005.

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• Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.

  James G. Frazer

  Development, Study, Influence

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• With respect to the development of powers devoted to coping with specific scientific and economic problems we may say that the child should be growing in manhood. With respect to sympathetic curiosity, unbiased responsiveness, and openness of mind, we may say that the adult should be growing in childlikeness.

  John Dewey

  Children, Curiosity, Mind

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.41, 谷月社

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• They [terrorists] are trying to evoke sympathy for themselves. They're not sympathetic people. They're violent, cold-blooded killers who are trying to stop the advance of freedom.

  George W. Bush

  People, Trying, Killers

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Vampire, Trends, Way

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• When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole wilderness is unity and interrelation, is alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly.

  John Muir

  Science, Humanity, Unity

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• There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.

  A.C. Grayling

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Reality

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• A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a compassionate heart in which people find God's consolation, understanding and love.

  Arthur Middleton

  Heart, People, Understanding

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• Who would have guessed that the shots heard 'round the world 225 years ago would fall on deaf ears in a nation now more sympathetic to the gun-grabbing Redcoat than the gun-bearing rebel?

  Michelle Malkin

  Fall, Gun, Years

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• Good is latent in every living thing and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect, sympathetic understanding, gentleness and love.

  J. Boone

  Attitude, Expression, Understanding

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• A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?

  George Eliot

  Girl, Believe, Weather

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola: In Two Volumes”, p.76

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• Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Israel

  George Mikes (1969). “Coat of Many Colors: Israel”

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• To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

  Ronald Firbank

  Discrimination

  Ronald Firbank (1986). “3 More Novels”, p.66, New Directions Publishing

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• We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Men, Thinking, Mirrors

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• There are times in a person's life when he or she must make a choice to believe. I choose to believe the sun will rise tomorrow. I also choose to believe that if you go to bed hungry you will wake up ready to eat. I've met a group of men in a faraway country who choose to believe that if you stand on a tree stump for an hour you will gain sympathy for trees. I am already quite sympathetic to trees, so I choose to think they are bonkers.

  Obert Skye

  Country, Believe, Men

  Obert Skye (2009). “The Wrath of Ezra”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces.

  Christopher Bond

  Thinking, Needs, Force

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• My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Being Bullied, Made, Compassionate

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• The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.

  Robert Adams

  Art, Long, People

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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• In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.

  Peter Asher

  People, Position

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. December 1, 2010.

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• Guys with nice person names try to be sympathetic.

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Nice, Names, Guy

  Caroline B. Cooney (2013). “Wanted!”, p.94, Open Road Media

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• Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Men, Generous Man, Hatred

  Alexandre Dumas (1981). “The Count of Monte Cristo”

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