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BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it… — Ambrose Bierce
God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full… — Mary Howitt
What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of… — John Greenleaf Whittier
My sympathies have always been for working-class people. — Christa McAuliffe
I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers'… — Salman Rushdie
I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we… — Sonia Sotomayor
The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man,… — Frances Wright
How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation! — John Muir
Your brother kills you." Fett hopped tpo his feet as lightly as any unarmoured jedi apprentice, the n added," Some things are worsse thean death.… — Troy Denning
My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions,… — Joyce Carol Oates
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained… — Wilkie Collins
As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend… — Charles Darwin
Your mother sounds like a formidable woman," Valek said into the silence. "You have no idea," Leif replied with a sigh. "Well, if she's anything… — Maria V. Snyder
Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity had not yet… — Charlotte Bronte
If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to… — Susan Sontag
One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
There are no personal sympathies in politics. — Margaret Thatcher
There are secret ties, there are sympathies, by the sweet relationship of which souls that are well matched attach themselves to each other, and are… — Pierre Corneille
We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an… — Martin Rees
First and foremost, I would like to extend my deepest sympathies to the family of Michael Brown. As I have said in the past, I… — Robert P. McCulloch
Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn. — B R Hayden
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. — Jessamyn West
BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it… — Ambrose Bierce
The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us… — Carl Becker

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