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Russell Simmons Entrepreneur, Music Producer
Complaining

"I was literally calling my customers who were complaining on social media and having a dialog with them, and sending them money."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
Complaining

"Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To do less than your best is a sin. Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service-to yourself and to others."

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Ovid Poet
Complaining

"Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?"

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Complaining

"I've found that no one complains about pop culture being a source of someone lecturing to them. If someone's telling you about Kim Kardashian, you're not going to accuse them of lecturing to you. If I can explore an intersection between pop culture and science literacy, then it generally will not come across as a lecture."

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Irving Stone Author
Complaining

"Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie.[Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]"

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
Complaining

"Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}"

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Franz Kafka Writer
Complaining

"Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
Complaining

"I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not; but mainly to the mass of men who are discontented, and idly complaining of the hardness of their lot or of the times, when they might improve them."

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