We sympathize with their calls for assistance.

We share your pain. We sympathize.

Why, they ask, should we show compassion to him?

We are sympathetic to the aspirations of Brazil, Germany, India and Japan to become permanent members of the Council, as well as to the call for additional representation for Africa.

We can certainly empathize with their pain and loss.

Our profound sympathy goes to all who have suffered untold misery.

Daniel Goleman, author of em Emotional Intelligence em , asks why we aren't more compassionate more of the time.

Germany has also indicated that we are sympathetic to the proposal to establish an International Finance Facility.

I should like to say that our sympathy and prayers are with the victims of the terrorist attack and with their families.

The death of the trainer is a tragedy, and one can only have sympathy for her family. But the incident raises broader questions was the attack deliberate?

We strongly identify with the residents of Sarajevo and hope for international action that will stop this nightmare.

We sympathize deeply with the Palestinian people in their struggle, through the intifadah, for their national rights.

It is easy to sympathize with the rebels against Bashar al Assad s dictatorship in Syria, for example.

This accounts for why we are often kind to our own flesh and blood those who share our genes.

That is to say, if we attend to the other person, we automatically empathize, we automatically feel with them.

And it is much harder, often, to be compassionate towards those closest to us, which is another quality in the universe of compassion, on its dark side, that also deserves our serious attention and illumination.

Even if we are still stopped, we sympathize with those getting ahead, imagining that we, too, will soon be moving forward.

And it's definitely not just about the Eid days of celebration that follow it s about how we can actually with a poor hungry kid or a starving animal.

And we certainly don't have any empathy for that part which explains the third consistent component of regret, which is an intense desire to punish ourselves.

We note that the impoverishment of Cuba apos s people is due overwhelmingly to exogenous circumstances, and so our sympathies lie with the people of this sister Caribbean State.

We also sympathize with the Iraqi people and call for the alleviation of their hardship, taking into account the acute shortage of medicines and foodstuffs.

Over the years, we have been deeply disturbed by the failure to restore the Palestinian people apos s legitimate rights and have sympathized with the peoples in the region for their misfortune and suffering caused by wars.

We sympathize greatly with, and also share in, the suffering of Lebanon in the face of the recent Israeli aggression, and we do support the steps taken by the Government of Lebanon in this regard.

While we sympathize with the principles motivating the many well intentioned proponents of this measure both within and outside the Committee, we believe the initiative and that already adopted by the World Health Assembly to be misguided.

And it is much harder, often, to be compassionate towards those closest to us, which is another quality in the universe of compassion, on its dark side, that also deserves our serious attention and illumination.

Nor should we be swayed by the argument that circuses provide employment. The human slave trade also provided employment, but that was no argument for perpetuating it.

And we allowed users, readers, two places where they could contribute to the paper the letters page, where they could write a letter in, and we would condescend to them, cut it in half, and print it three days later.

You will probably not remember this, but you were weeks old when I held you in my arms, walked the living room back and forth, tears rolling from my eyes like a young girl, chanting loudly The people want to topple the regime.

We are sympathetic to the aspirations of those countries that wish to develop and improve their collections of cultural property, but we cannot accept the principle that cultural property which has been freely and legitimately acquired should be returned to the country of origin.

As we commiserate with the victims of terrorism, we commend the restraint of leaders in the region who have maintained their vision and their commitment to the peace process. By their perseverance in these moments of tragedy, Israel and the Palestinians, in particular, have demonstrated that theirs is truly the peace of the brave.

So, I'm saying the mirror neuron system underlies the interface allowing you to rethink about issues like consciousness, representation of self, what separates you from other human beings, what allows you to empathize with other human beings, and also even things like the emergence of culture and civilization, which is unique to human beings. Thank you.

To be sure, we still sympathize with people who, upon reaching middle age or later, find themselves replaced by lower paid workers in another part of the world, if not by a computer or a robot.