Confucius
Philosopher
"Don't curse the darkness, light a candle."
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Curse
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability."
John Adams
Founding Father, Politician
"Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind."
Friedrich Schiller
Playwright, Poet
"This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil."
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"In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle."
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"Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse."
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"Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse."
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"Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny."
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"I'm never proper or careful, but I never curse in front of my mother, either."
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"Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life."
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"Too much of anything can make you sick, even the good can be a curse - Cheryl Cole"
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"The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious"
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"immortality is a terrible curse."
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"The curse of poverty has no justification in our age."
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"Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse."
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"Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses."
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"I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it."
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"Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!"
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"There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess."
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"Chess is a curse upon a man."
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"I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk."
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"At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups."
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"Love is, after all, a curse of suffering."
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"Books are the curse of the human race."
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