Alfred de Musset Quotes
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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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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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I spoke last night with many of my counterparts and without exception there was overwhelming support for this action by the military coalition consisting of the United States and the United Kingdom.
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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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Manage by exception.Only require reporting when there is a deviation from the plan.
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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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We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?
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The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.
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The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
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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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And your dinner for the orchestra officials." "Haven't you ever had people coming over and no time to shop? You have to make do with what's in the fridge, Clarice. May I call you Clarice?
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Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.
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I don't get bothered by people saying what they say. I'm a happy person and I'm happy with my looks. I'm not an insecure person. I believe if somebody chooses plastic surgery it should be for themselves, not for anyone else.
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One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right amount of fear and suspicion will earn one safety. Fear is promoted by the government as a kind of policy. Fear is accepted, even among the best-educated people in this country, even among the professors with whom I work, as a kind of intelligence. And inspiring fear in others is often seen as neighborly and kindly, instead of being regarded as what my cousin recognized it for - a violence.
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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
