"The High Septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer."
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"The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with."
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"The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering."
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"Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest."
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"The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges."
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"I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming to a head."
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"We live in this world, not another one that we'd prefer, and sometimes it's necessary to follow painful paths if we hope to provide at least a little help for suffering people."
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"As a health scientist at Columbia University, Les Roberts, pointed out, sooner or later people are going to be looking at a child in a wheelchair suffering from polio and will say 'the Americans did that to him'. So they continue policies which have similar effects i.e. organising the Taliban. This will come back to them too."
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"I suffer from arachnophobia. I don't mind the tiny spiders so much, it's the ones with their legs covered in thick hair."
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"Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us."
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"Suffering, violent suffering, seems to be something that corresponds with something that we experience."
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"Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering."
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"The obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living."
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"That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia."
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"I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold."
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"The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got."
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"The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood."
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"Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy."
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"Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers."
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"To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that. Then she wondered if it were vain and stupid to think so well of herself. When had it even been a guarantee to be valuable? Wasn't all history full of the destruction of precious things? Wasn't it much more probable that if one were fine one would suffer?"
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