"People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things."
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"Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so."
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"If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing."
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"I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They're like arsonists complaining about the smell of smoke in the neighborhood."
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"This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love."
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"Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain."
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"I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself."
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"The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere."
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"I've wanted one thing in my life. I don't want to be that girl that gets that one thing then complains."
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"I've wanted one thing for me whole life and I'm not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains."
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"'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'"
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"When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it."
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"... bear with him as Our Lord bore with His disciples, who gave Him good reason to complain - at least, some of them did. Yet, He allowed them to remain in His company and tried to bring them around gently."
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"Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?"
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"Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull."
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"This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will."
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"To this day, I don't love my arms. People want more fit arms, but my arms are too fit. But I'm not complaining. They pay my bills."
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"If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend."
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"I'm surrounded by men, and the muse is complaining that I have neglected her."
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"In short, for me - I'm kind of projecting onto you - distraction has become a modus vivendi, a way of life. Rather than complaining, I am recognizing that I couldn't do what I wanted to do because I'm distracted."
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