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Adversity is the seed of strength that blooms into resilience.
Author:
Sophia Thompson
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It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
Author:
Emil Zatopek
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I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.
Author:
Muhammad Yunus
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Why don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.
Author:
Shigeru Yoshida
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
Author:
William Yeats
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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
Author:
Tennessee Williams
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The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.
Author:
Bill Williams
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
Author:
Laura Wilder
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Author:
Elie Wiesel
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Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.
Author:
William Wharton
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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
Author:
H. Wells
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If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
Author:
Simone Weil
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But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.
Author:
Mercy Warren
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Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.
Author:
George Wallace
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The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.
Author:
John Vinocur
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Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.
Author:
Guy Verhofstadt
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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.
Author:
Eamon Valera
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The reward of suffering is experience.
Author:
Harry Truman
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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Author:
Leo Tolstoy
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The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Author:
Leo Tolstoy
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Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists.
Author:
Fred Thompson
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How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.
Author:
Edwin Teale
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Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
Author:
Tom Stoppard
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I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.
Author:
Lucy Stone
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It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.
Author:
Pamela Stephenson
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.
Author:
Layne Staley
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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
Author:
Patti Smith
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Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's.
Author:
Liz Smith
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The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
Author:
Samuel Smiles
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In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
Author:
Ike Skelton
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Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina.
Author:
Ike Skelton
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All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
Author:
Peter Singer
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I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
Author:
Russell Simmons
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I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.
Author:
Clare Short
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The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?
Author:
Clare Short
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Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
Author:
Percy Shelley
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And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.
Author:
Martin Sheen
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The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.
Author:
Ariel Sharon
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Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.
Author:
Jose Serrano
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.
Author:
Compay Segundo
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Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Author:
Albert Schweitzer
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Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
Author:
Adam Schiff
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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
Author:
Antoine Saint-Exupery
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
Author:
John Ruskin
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Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
Author:
Miguel Ruiz
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Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering.
Author:
Harriet Rosenstein
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We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales.
Author:
David Rose
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Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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I am sure there will come a time when we are going to use AMD. The products have been getting better. The acceptance is getting better. But we have not been suffering as a company for either growth or profitability because we haven't had AMD.
Author:
Kevin Rollins
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Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.
Author:
Jane Roberts
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A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
Author:
Jules Renard
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You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.
Author:
Ernest Renan
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We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.
Author:
Joseph Ratzinger
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Mr. Speaker, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that embryonic stem cells have great potential to regenerate specific types of human tissues, offering hope for millions of Americans suffering from debilitating diseases.
Author:
Jim Ramstad
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As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.
Author:
Jim Ramstad
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I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
Author:
Richard Pryor
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Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
Author:
Marcel Proust
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We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Author:
Marcel Proust
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Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.
Author:
Emily Prager
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For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.
Author:
Michael Pollan
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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
Author:
Plato
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Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
Author:
Albert Pike
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The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.
Author:
Jean-Marie Pen
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Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting.
Author:
Jason Patric
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The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
Author:
Daniel Palmer
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Grief causes suffering and disease.
Author:
Daniel Palmer
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The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism.
Author:
Daniel Ortega
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More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.
Author:
Robert Orben
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The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.
Author:
Ted Olson
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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
Author:
Ben Okri
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Author:
Anais Nin
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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous.
Author:
John Negroponte
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I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.
Author:
George Murray
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Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
Author:
Robert Mugabe
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We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
Author:
Marianne Moore
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A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.
Author:
Merton Miller
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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
Author:
Ralph Merkle
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
Author:
Ralph Merkle
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When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
Author:
Mignon McLaughlin
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We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans.
Author:
Jim McDermott
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Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.
Author:
George McClellan
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Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities.
Author:
Michael McCaul
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The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
Author:
Armistead Maupin
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
Author:
W. Maugham
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Author:
Karl Marx
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There's always been physical suffering in comedy.
Author:
Don Martin
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We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
Author:
Jose Marti
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Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
Author:
Thomas Mann
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
Author:
Andre Malraux
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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
Author:
Norman Mailer
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I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.
Author:
Naguib Mahfouz
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I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled.
Author:
Hugh Mackay
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Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.
Author:
Mary Lyon
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It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
Author:
Robert Lynd
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There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.
Author:
Frank Luntz
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It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
Author:
Bela Lugosi
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
Author:
Bela Lugosi
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We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
Author:
John Lubbock
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No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.
Author:
Edward Livingston
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Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.
Author:
Dan Lipinski
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I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Author:
Anne Lindbergh
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In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.
Author:
Ernest Lawrence
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Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.
Author:
Tom Lantos
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To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
Author:
Jessica Lange
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
Author:
Lactantius
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Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.
Author:
Aleksander Kwasniewski
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We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.
Author:
Aleksander Kwasniewski
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There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.
Author:
John Kufuor
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I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.
Author:
Fritz Kreisler
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Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.
Author:
Jerzy Kosinski
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It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.
Author:
Kathe Kollwitz
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From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.
Author:
Jack Kingston
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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.
Author:
Krzysztof Kieslowski
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We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.
Author:
Krzysztof Kieslowski
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First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?
Author:
Jack Kevorkian
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The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do not be mistaken. The Russian Revolution is just beginning.
Author:
Alexander Kerensky
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Author:
Helen Keller
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Author:
Helen Keller
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All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Author:
Helen Keller
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
Author:
Walter Kaufmann
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It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.
Author:
Walter Kaufmann
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To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.
Author:
Walter Kaufmann
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The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
Author:
Walter Kaufmann
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
Author:
Walter Kaufmann
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The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
Author:
Walter Kaufmann
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
Author:
Walter Kaufmann
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Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
Author:
Leon Kass
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Author:
Franz Kafka
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Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
Author:
Franz Kafka
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Author:
Carl Jung
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In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.
Author:
Eyvind Johnson
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To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.
Author:
Gwen John
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That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.
Author:
Muhammad Jinnah
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It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.
Author:
Jerome
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I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.
Author:
Elfriede Jelinek
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He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.
Author:
Antony Jay
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I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.
Author:
Daniel Inouye
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True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
Author:
Saint Ignatius
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
Author:
Saint Ignatius
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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
Author:
Basil Hume
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
Author:
Ernest Holmes
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.
Author:
Laura Hillenbrand
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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
Author:
Herman Hesse
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He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
Author:
Hesiod
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Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
Author:
Arthur Henderson
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
Author:
Felicia Hemans
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Experience is the extract of suffering.
Author:
Arthur Helps
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It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
Author:
Arthur Helps
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Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.
Author:
Alcee Hastings
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Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
Author:
Paul Harvey
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Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.
Author:
Tom Harkin
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People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.
Author:
Dashiell Hammett
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After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?
Author:
Kay Gusmao
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Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.
Author:
David Gurion
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A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
Author:
G. Gurdjieff
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Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
Author:
Andrew Greeley
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The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.
Author:
Lauren Graham
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How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering.
Author:
Julius Gordon
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
Author:
Ira Gershwin
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All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.
Author:
Richard Gere
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There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
Author:
Susan George
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Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
Author:
Marcus Garvey
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Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
Author:
John Galbraith
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Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
Author:
Betty Friedan
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We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
Author:
Sigmund Freud
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The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
Author:
William Faulkner
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It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.
Author:
Rainer Fassbinder
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There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.
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Mia Farrow
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For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.
Author:
Paul Farmer
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In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
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Queen Elizabeth II
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Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
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Andrea Dworkin
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People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.
Author:
Otto Dix
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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.
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Paul Dirac
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One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Denis Diderot
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Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
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Princess Diana
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Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recording, I'm kinda picturing a Jerry Lee Lewis session from the mid Seventies.
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Jim Diamond
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Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
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Catherine Deneuve
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It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS.
Author:
Bruce Davison
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When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'
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Mitch Daniels
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We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
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Edward Dahlberg
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Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.
Author:
Stafford Cripps
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With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.
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Jerry Costello
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A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.
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Anderson Cooper
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Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.
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John Conyers
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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
Author:
Sidonie Colette
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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
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J. Coetzee
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Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
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Paulo Coelho
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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
Author:
Paulo Coelho
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Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
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Kurt Cobain
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The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.
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George Clooney
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A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
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John Cleese
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Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?
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John Clayton
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War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
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Karl Clausewitz
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If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.
Author:
Helen Clark
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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
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John Ciardi
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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
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Winston Churchill
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The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here.
Author:
Perry Christie
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But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
Author:
Lydia Child
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I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.
Author:
Michael Chertoff
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In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.
Author:
Margaret Cavendish
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The artistry of reenactment must cherish the of age, dance along axes of precision, while interpreting historical truth--not distorting but rejuvenating learned legacies.
Author:
Sarah Markum
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We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.
Author:
Silvia Cartwright
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You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.
Author:
Angela Carter
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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
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Alexis Carrel
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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.
Author:
Donald Cargill
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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
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Albert Camus
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Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.
Author:
James Byrnes
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On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.
Author:
George Bush
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Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.
Author:
David Burns
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I believe in people, especially suffering people.
Author:
Pat Buckley
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Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.
Author:
Gro Brundtland
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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
Author:
Rita Brown
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I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.
Author:
Christie Brinkley
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We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence.
Author:
Hjalmar Branting
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In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.
Author:
Andrew Bradley
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To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
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Bodhidharma
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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
Author:
Harold Bloom
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I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.
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Donald Berwick
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Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.
Author:
John Bernal
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If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.
Author:
Charles Bent
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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
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Tony Benn
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Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.
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Carol Bellamy
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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Henry Beecher
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As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.
Author:
Bob Beauprez
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How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
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Charles Baudelaire
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Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.
Author:
Christiaan Barnard
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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
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Honore Balzac
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We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.
Author:
Emily Balch
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
Author:
Jane Austen
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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Saint Augustine
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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Aristotle
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.
Author:
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.
Author:
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.
Author:
Kofi Annan
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People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.
Author:
Laurie Anderson
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A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.
Author:
Daniel Akaka
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Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
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Aeschylus
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Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Author:
Aeschylus
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One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.
Author:
Isabelle Adjani
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
Author:
John Acton
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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
Author:
Chinua Achebe
