"Epicurus was not at all interested in what we would call the problems of mass society, and he thought civic politics was just trouble and to be avoided by the wise."
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"Adversity is a good school."
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"I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us."
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"Monsieur, sit down; listen to me. I am not a heathen, I am not hard-hearted, I am not unchristian, I am not dangerous, as they tell you; I would not trouble your faith; you believe in God and Christ and the Bible, and so do I."
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"As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles."
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"One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about."
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"I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself."
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"And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves."
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"Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them."
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"All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly."
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"All our troubles come from not being able to be alone."
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"You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger."
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"Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags alone are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on."
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"Call in the Caped Crusader, Green Hornet, Kato, too. I'm in so much trouble I don't know what to do."
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"I don't have any sexual hang-ups, but I'm sure there are bodybuilders who have trouble with sex, and obviously the body building hasn't helped."
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"Don't be bothered by troubles because they are generally guests we ourselves invite - they will stay for some time and then leave"
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"There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future."
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"Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble."
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"You get in a lot of trouble when you start putting fictitious numbers."
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"It's the things that we know FOR SURE, that just ain't so, that get us into trouble."
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