Wole Soyinka Quotes
Sadly however, I discovered in one particular case that a colleague went and paid the bribe on my behalf, just to get our mission fulfilled. That was painful, and it strained our friendship.
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Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
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I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.
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That's painful always to lose.
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Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.
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What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?
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As painful as this thing has been I just can't be with no one else. See I know what we've got to do. You let go, and I'll let go too. 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you And no one ever will.
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Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?
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Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.
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Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)
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I was struggling. I couldn't really go to the basket as quick as I wanted to. When I did it was real painful.
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Falling in love is painful on the knees.
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Nancy Reagan, when presented with kids with really painful disabilities and deformities, she was completely undaunted.
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Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.
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Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.
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In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.
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As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving
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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
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We face a severe shortage of dentists, for example. It would work for veterinarians, too.
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By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?
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When it seems like the whole world thinks you're bad, it's hard to hang on to your goodness.
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I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.
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Sadly however, I discovered in one particular case that a colleague went and paid the bribe on my behalf, just to get our mission fulfilled. That was painful, and it strained our friendship.
