“This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.”
— Tom Paulin
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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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“I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
— Agatha Christie
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“The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.”
— Lillie Langtry
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“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.”
— Joni Mitchell
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“If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.”
— Oscar Wilde
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“Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.”
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.”
— Dirk Benedict
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“Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.”
— Thomas More
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“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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