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I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves. – John Burns

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In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience. – John Burns

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Courage
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John Burns
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You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters. – John Burns

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Morning
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A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason. – William R. Alger

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Sympathy

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party. – Goldwin Smith

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Sympathy

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: Ive seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy. – Anthony Storr

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Sympathy

I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them. – Shinzo Abe

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Sympathy

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The true genius shudders at incompleteness — and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. – Edgar Allan Poe

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Speaking

God, the illogic! The impossibility of communication in this house. The sheer operation alone of getting something through to somebody. – Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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communication

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community. – David Byrne

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Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work – though its not necessarily evident in anything thats finished. – Bruce Nauman

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Anger