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Quote by Ivan Turgenev
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound symp

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. – Ivan Turgenev

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In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesnt know art, just as it doesnt know freedom, just as it doesnt know goodness. – Ivan Turgenev

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Freedom
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Ivan Turgenev
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Nature creates while destroying, and doesnt care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isnt extinguished, as long as death doesnt lose its rights. – Ivan Turgenev

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Death
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Sympathy
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When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. – George MacDonald

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Sympathy

Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. – Author Unknown

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Sympathy

They werent impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George. – Audrey Meadows

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Sympathy

We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom. – Mohammed Morsi

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I never will have peace of mind. Im not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible. – Julie Christie

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I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me-then they will have my dead body, not my obedience. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes. – Knute Rockne

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