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  • We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

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  • Jean Cocteau A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Homer A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Bill Hybels God is righteous and just, holy and tender, responsive and sympathetic. He is willing--anxious even--to hear from you. Moreover, he is willing to act on your behalf.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • George Washington Carver How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Caroll Spinney Oscar is the exact opposite of how I think you should behave. I just think of it as a negative view of the positive mind I have. Big Bird is sweet and nice and also sympathetic, as kids can identify with him even though he looks like such a bizarre character - great 8 feet 2 inches, a beak 18 inches long.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Isadora Duncan Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Ang Lee Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • George Eliot Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Herman Melville We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bruno Maag When we design for non-Latin, we always aim to create a rhythm and texture that is sympathetic so when you have the two scripts running side by side, they create, ideally, the same tonal value on the page.
    Bruno Maag
    Swiss type designer and businessman (1962 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman While husbands and lovers in the stories [of the 14th century] are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous, lecherous, shameless, although not necessarily all of these at once.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Pablo Picasso Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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