"The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence."
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"Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself."
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"Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain."
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"Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future."
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"Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him."
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"We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland."
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"Women cry. Men laugh. Whiners moan. Men laugh. Wimps complain. Men laugh."
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"The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain of it, is to lament over the necessary effect and cause of the greatest public prosperity."
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"If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are."
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"If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself, Lament that you are not poet enough to call up its wealth."
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"The ox suffers, the cart complains."
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"When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish."
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"pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer, the onion rings soggy. Looking around the place, though, I failed to spot a single customer banging on a tray or complaining to a waitress. So I shut up and finished my food. Expect nothing, get nothing."
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"Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment."
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"We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns."
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"A lot of people don't enjoy their jobs, and it's one of the main things we like to complain about."
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"I don't know how much longer I can complain."
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"Be a source of joy. And let haters complain about the world."
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"The problem with anger against God is that it's impossible to go higher in the system to complain."
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"There is often times when I'm in a bar or after a show, and a woman just grabs my head and shoves it into her cleavage, or grabs my ass, or something like that which - don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining, but it's just interesting. It's just interesting that that occurs."
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