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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and op

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them. – Ben Elton

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People who get through life dependent on other peoples possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count. – Ben Elton

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not then marriages would be truly made in heaven. – Ben Elton

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The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value. – Ben Elton

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Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. – Joni Mitchell

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I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave – and nothing but laughter to console them with. – John Irving

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Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior. – Henry Ossawa Tanner

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Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago. – Eamon de Valera

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