"Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering."
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"For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue."
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"It's amazing how much punishment we can take."
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"Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice."
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"The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice."
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"Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed."
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"All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished."
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"The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable."
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"We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering."
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"In a world of war, pain and suffering, all I want for Christmas is an underwater watch and a silver clutch rod for my dirt bike."
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"Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil."
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"It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected."
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"Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands."
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"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity."
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"Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us."
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"The reward of suffering is experience"
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"Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering."
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"If we stop thinking of ourselves and only of helping others, you will start to see a dramatic improvement in the suffering we are all going through."
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"There exists within each of us a natural state of simple and open awareness in which we feel happy, light, and at peace. In contrast, the state of suffering, or unhappiness, is complicated."
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"In terms of the New Testament the Jews must suffer, therefore we will put it into practice if we will in charge and there will be no sympathy for the Jews when the blacks take over."
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