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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
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"When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told me to be strong, but I confused to see it so weak You say never to give up, and it hurts to see what comes to be When your hero falls soley the stars, and so does the reception of tomorrow Without my hero, theres only me alone, to deal with my sorrow Your heart ceases to work, and your soul is not happy at all What are you expected to do, when your only hero falls"

Strong Stars Hurt
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Reynolds Price Novelist
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"Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand."

Heart Hurt Cells
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Ah! Let the soul emerge."

Pain Hurt Rocks
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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
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"I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts- because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting... I had been told that a 'funny' thing is a thing of goodness. It isn't... The goodness is in the laughing. I grok it is a bravery- and a sharing- against pain and sorrow and defeat."

Pain Hurt Funny Things
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives."

People Thinking Hurt
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Isaac Newton Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
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"You ask me how, with so much study, I manage to retene my health. Morpheus is my last companion; without 8 or 9 hours of him yr correspondent is not worth one scavenger's peruke. My practices did at ye first hurt my stomach, but now I eat heartily enou' as y' will see when I come down beside you."

Hurt Sleep Food
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Jerry Lewis Comedian, Actor, Singer
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"When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience."

Pain Hurt Adrenaline
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Loretta Young Actress
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"I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Who's to be the judge of that?"

Thinking Long Hurt
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Daniel Kahneman Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
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"The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college."

Thinking Hurt College
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Denis Johnson Author, Poet
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"When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from right across the table. But she missed. It wasn't my life she was after. It was more. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother."

Mother Jesus Hurt
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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
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"If I find a green meadow splashed with daisies and sit down beside a clear-running brook, I have found medicine. It soothes my hurts as well as when I sat in my mother's lap in infancy, because the Earth really is my mother, and the green meadow is her lap."

Running Mother Hurt
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Charlie Munger Investor, Businessman
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"Size will hurt returns. Look at Berkshire Hathaway - the last five things Warren has done have generated returns that are splendid by historical standards, but now give him $100 billion in assets and measure outcomes across all of it, it doesn't look so good. We can only buy big positions, and the only time we can get big positions is during a horrible period of decline or stasis. That really doesn't happen very often."

Giving Hurt Historical
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Charlie Munger Investor, Businessman
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"I don't want to sell credit to people who are going to hurt themselves with it. You should only sell products that are good for the people who use them. Some disagree with this, but I know I'm right. That is to say, you're talking to a Republican who admires Elizabeth Warren."

People Hurt Talking
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Chic Murray Comedian, Actor
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"I took my father on a coach trip last summer.We were halfway there when the driver lost control of the coach, it flew down a hill around a bend and crashed through a brick wall. I wasn't hurt but luckily my father had the presence of mind to kick my head in."

Funny Hurt Summer
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