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Sometimes you have to be cruel... in order to be even crueler.


Michael O'Donoghue
Decades of futile effort have not dampened my bold aspirations to save the nation. Born in a late age, I have not been able to witness the golden rule of Yao and Shun and other sage emperors of ancient China. Instead, my heart grieves at the suffering of the Chinese people under the cruel exploitation of the Tartar Slaves.
Sun Yat-sen
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The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
Gabriel Marcel
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.
Sebastian Horsley
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Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.
Jonathan Haidt
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Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.


George C. Wallace
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.


William Hazlitt
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Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin, but also secures for us the true liberty of the children of God, in order that we might do all things out of love rather than out of fear - love for him that has shown us such grace that no greater can be found.
Peter Abelard
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
B. R. Ambedkar
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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.
Pope Benedict XVI
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We don't need no more danger, we don't need no more difficulties, we don't need no more misunderstanding, and we don't need no more violence. We need the people to see each other and know of each other, feel each other, touch each other, share with each other, and change hearts with each other.
Burning Spear
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We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?


Mahatma Gandhi
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Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.
Paul Scott
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The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.


Gloria Steinem
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The Holy Ghost will testify to our hearts, and the hearts of those gathered around with us, what He would have us do. And it is by keeping His commandments that we can have our hearts knit together as one.
Henry B. Eyring
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Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.


Amber Tamblyn
The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
Octavian Paler
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I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take things off the shelf. If I don't like the book after a bit, I don't finish it. But I like to be surprised.
Stanley Kubrick
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Football's cruel sometimes.


Tim Howard
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.
John Ruskin
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