"We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters."
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"What happened?" "During the kiss?" "No, with you and Caroline." "Oh," he said. And then after a second, "Caroline is no longer suffering from personhood."
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"Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held out hope that the suffering could be transcended. Jesus brought the message that even the last shall be first, that even the tax collectors and lepers - the outcasts - had cause for hope. And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope."
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"Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into."
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"It is necessary men should be tried and purged and purified and made perfect through suffering."
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"There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable."
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"The problem with the loneliness I suffer is that the company of others has never been a cure for it."
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"The big, big record labels have so much control. I think too much control that it actually made their artists scared to not do what they were told and then the music suffers because of that dynamic and now there's the power of the download."
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"A side benefit of the new and developing technologies is that soon we won't have to feel guilty about the suffering and denigration of the animals because we will have made them up."
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"People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves."
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"Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, He will use it to do great things in us & through us, because suffering is fertile... it an grow new life."
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"But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness"
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"Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith."
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"Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion."
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"The lot of man-to suffer and die."
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"If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer."
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"unearned suffering is redemptive."
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"I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence"
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"I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear."
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"Believest thou? then thou wilt speak boldly. Speakest thou boldy? then thou must suffer. Sufferest thou? then thou shalt be comforted. For faith, the confession thereof, and the cross do follow one another."
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