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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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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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Sympathy
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I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons cant be learnt in lecture halls. – Lionel Blue

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Sympathy

I never ask for mercy and seek no ones sympathy. – Conrad Black

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Sympathy

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one. – Aneurin Bevan

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Sympathy

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. – Edward Gibbon

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I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States. – Richard Lugar

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