"I have eyes like those of a dead pig."
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"I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future."
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"I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything."
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"I don't do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That's why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day."
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"If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span."
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"When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before."
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"If you're aware of injustice, you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain about it and not do anything, or put your energies into doing something about it."
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"One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed."
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"They keep telling me don't save you. If I ignore all that advice and something isn't right then who will I complain to?"
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"Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting."
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"The more you complain the longer God lets you live"
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"Never criticize, condemn or complain in a conversation with a customer or prospect."
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"The sea complains upon a thousand shores."
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"Anna Petrovna (to Shabelsky): You can't make a simple joke without an injection of venom. You are a poisonous man. Joking apart, Count, you're very poisonous. It's hideously boring to live with you. You're always grumpy, complaining, you find everyone bad, good for nothing. Tell me frankly, Count, did you ever speak well of anyone?"
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"Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business."
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"He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood."
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"This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain."
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"Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it."
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"When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll say you can't complain."
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"When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence."
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