"Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you."
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"When it was seen that many of the wicked seemed quite untroubled by evil conscience ... then the idea of future suffering was advanced."
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"I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things."
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"Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people."
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"Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change."
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"You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man."
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"There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation."
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"Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad."
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"One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life."
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"It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual."
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"Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure: pain always asks concerning the cause, while pleasure is inclined to keep within itself and not look backward."
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"Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?"
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"He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold."
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"The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that."
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"Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do."
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"I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history, Mid-Atlantic history is national history. We're still suffering from that."
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"Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history."
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"If you were the poor, suffering was your currency."
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"The anger of the people in the Gaza Strip is mainly directed toward those who are responsible for the dire living conditions, for the occupation and the blockade. But, yes, for sure, as is the case everywhere, there are some who oppose the government. But they are very few compared to the close to 2 million inhabitants of Gaza suffering under Israel, the occupying power."
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"The international community has been extracting concessions from the weaker side suffering under the occupation. For decades, this strategy has done absolutely nothing for the Palestinians. Now they are demanding that Hamas go the same route. We will not accept that. Extracting concessions is not the key to achieving peace. Pressure must be exerted on the occupier."
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