"Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making."
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"The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I’ve created for myself."
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"Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable, has lost its explanatory value and is becoming an intellectual and moral burden to our thought. It no longer convinces or comforts, and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief."
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"For this relief, much thanks"
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"Yes, I dont know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief."
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"Happiness is the relief after extreme tension"
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"That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. ... Rather, how much more admirable the painting must be considered, if having no relief at all, it appears to have as much as sculpture!"
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"So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns; And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain."
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"Before you do something to help, your presence already can bring some relief."
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"Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?"
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"The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief."
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"The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief."
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"Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain."
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"When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered."
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"Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief."
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"All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you."
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"I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really."
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"Relief loosens tongues beyond measure."
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"When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself."
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"I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax"
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