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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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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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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But Golden's dark form in the doorway had imprinted something new and painful on the hard plates of her chest: that old devil, hope. The kind of hope that abandons you in your worst moments and is suddenly there again, weeks later, trailing you like the stubborn, slinking dog who will not take no for an answer. The kind of greedy hope that tricks you into believing that at least some of the things taken from you might be restored, that after everything, you might find your way back to something like happiness.
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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
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If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief and misery they strew in their tracks; and how, while they marched on with tread of iron and plumes proudly tossing in the breeze, some one must follow closely in their steps, crouching to the earth, toiling in the rain and darkness, shelterless themselves, with no thought of pride or glory, fame or praise, or reward; hearts breaking with pity, faces bathed in tears and hands in blood. This is the side which history never shows.
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Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.
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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
