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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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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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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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I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into peoples minds better than we Liberals. – Charles Trevelyan

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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Sympathy

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

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Sympathy

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men. – Max Beerbohm

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You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era. – David Hockney

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It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms. – Louis Debonnaire

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