"The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity."
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"When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter. Now I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm starting to think they just don't want to talk about inequality."
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"I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against."
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"Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!""
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"The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example."
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"It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are."
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"I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand."
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"When we complain about our current situation, we remain in it; when we praise God in the midst of difficulty, He raises us out of it."
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"Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs."
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"The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty."
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"I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on."
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"Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem"
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"Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again."
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"Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away."
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"If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen."
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"It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest."
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"And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love."
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"Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed."
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"Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism."
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"Contentment and happiness! Do everything happily. Walk, talk, sit happily; even if you complain against somebody, do it happily."
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