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"Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest."
"Do the uncomfortable and it will widen your circle of comfort."
"The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se."
"All clean and comfortable I sit down to write."
"It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries."
"Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes."
"My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me."
"The biggest danger I feel are an emerging group of Westernised, educated, champagne socialists and latte liberals who pontificate about social inequality, democracy and freedom in the comfort of their condos."
"It comforts me to think that if we are created beings, the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality, and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality, or it would not be reasonable."
"To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it."
"Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable."
"If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying."
"The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence."
"Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done."
"There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat."
"Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word."
"The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort."
"Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort."
"In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees with bulldozers, baboons with big bombs."
"The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer."
