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• The dismissive notion that conservatives leak to outlets on the right for ideological reasons ignores the fact that liberals often do the same thing with news organizations that are either left-of-center or likely to be sympathetic to the message being peddled.

  Howard Kurtz

  Organization, News, Politics

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• The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving, Aids

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1939). “The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.321, Columbia University Press

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• A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Men, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.203

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• In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.

  Albert Einstein

  Teaching, Geography And History, Understanding

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.103, Princeton University Press

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• More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Passion, World, Growing

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

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• Kant does not think that along with choice of an action we also choose in each case the motive from which we do it. He thinks all is well if I act beneficently, realizing that it is my duty but also having sympathetic feelings for the person I help. But I ought to strive to be the sort of person who would still help even if these feelings were absent. And it is such a case that he presents when the sympathetic friend of humanity finds his sympathetic feelings overclouded by his own sorrows, and still acts beneficently from duty.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Choices, Feelings

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I actually think there are more Republicans than people realize who would be sympathetic to immigration reform in the rank and file. I think the lesson for Jeb Bush is politicians shouldn't write books with long lead times.

  E. J. Dionne

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Week In Politics: Unemployment, Rand Paul's Filibuster". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 8, 2013.

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• After the success of Buddenbrooks, he married and fathered six children. Yet the surviving diaries tell us of recurrent sexual problems - and of Katia Mann's extremely sympathetic response to them

  Philip Kitcher

  Children, Diaries, Six

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We all know that a sympathetic and intelligent listener not only flatters our vanity, but also frequently enables us to crystallize our own ideas to the best advantage. Why, then, do we so often refuse to perform this service?

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Intelligent, Vanity, Ideas

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• Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Hate, Together, Strange

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• I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman in the conventional sense or breaking the boundaries, those struggles are quite difficult.

  Susie Orbach

  Struggle, Writing, Trying

  Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2009.

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• I don't like sympathetic characters.

  Howard Barker

  Character

  "Howard Barker: 'I don't care if you listen or not'". Interview with Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. October 01, 2012.

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• When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

  Jim Broadbent

  Research, Turns, Empathetic

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• The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Character, Way, Likeable

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• Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent.

  Alex Flinn

  Book, Thinking, Viewpoints

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• In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'

  Warren Buffett

  Giving, Weight, Way

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• There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

  Alexander Siddig

  Roles, West, Enough

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• Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Love Is, Shining

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.158, New World Library

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• Women most certainly carry a more sympathetic heart in the traditional, classic sense the mother archetype. They have been given the role to carry the heart energy of the human community, whereas men carry the survival energy.

  Caroline Myss

  Mother, Heart, Men

  Source: www.shareguide.com

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• I try to speak plainly and be sympathetic to the idea of religions where people gather in community. They get a sense of people looking out for each other. My claim is that we have a tendency to look out for each other whether or not there is a religion involved.

  Bill Nye

  Ideas, People, Community

  "It's that Guy! An Interview with 2010 Humanist of the Year Bill Nye". Interview with Clay Farris Naff, thehumanist.com. November 21, 2014.

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• Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical component to it and engages the reader on a visceral level and evokes a strong sympathetic reaction. High art is people driving in Volvos and talking a lot. I just don't want to keep those things separate. I think you can use visceral physical experiences to illustrate larger ideas, whether they're emotional or spiritual. I'm trying to not exclude high and low art or separate them.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Spiritual, Strong, Art

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• The hour on stage is rarely a drag. In fact, I can't really say that its ever a drag. The few times that its been challenging has been when you don't have a sympathetic audience or there is the occasional strange corporate gig or something that you take or that you're not sure and you're like, "Wait a second. That's just the wrong venue".

  Joel Plaskett

  Waiting, Challenges, Gigs

  "There's Something About Joel Plaskett". Interview with Colton Eddy, October 11, 2013.

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• There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.

  Peter King

  People, Islam, Should

  "Rep. Peter King: There are 'too many mosques in this country'" by Daniel W. Reilly, www.politico.com. September 19, 2007.

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• I have children. I have other concerns. I have other focuses. I really feel very sympathetic and I would love to be able to help but I don't see this as the opportunity, having done 'Extraordinary measures', for me to suddenly leap on a soap box and begin to talk about the pharmaceutical industry or the desperate plight of sick children. I do what I can in my world but I don't have the bona fides to do that right now.

  Harrison Ford

  Children, Opportunity, Sick

  "Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser Interview EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES". collider.com. January 17, 2010.

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• The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some kind of unknown other who will be sympathetic and read each word carefully and understand what I'm writing about. I suppose every writer feels this.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Age, Faces

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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