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If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination… — Charles Horton Cooley
I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might be painful. It… — William Shatner
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. — Laozi
The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient… — Lydia M. Child
Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one. — Raymond Burr
At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water of a river,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
According to the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, fish have feelings too. Whenever my sons go fishing they always tell me, "Dad… — Donald Trump
Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs are not financial problems. You… — Vernon Howard
Simply, with a Republican Congress sitting shotgun, Mitt Romney will put the middle class on the roof and take us for a long, painful ride. — Patty Murray
Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing… — Tony Robbins
Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through… — Tom Peters
The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of… — Carl Jung
In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the… — Carl Jung
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually… — George Santayana
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. — William James
It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical… — Bertrand Russell
The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and painful experiences. The… — Lee Strobel
We will suffer a sharp painful disullisionment before we fully surrender. When people really see themselves as the Lord sees them, it is not the… — Oswald Chambers
There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting… — Arthur Helps
Life is about change, sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time it's both. — Kristin Kreuk
The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very… — Samuel Johnson
Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes… — Humphry Davy
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will… — Maurice Maeterlinck
For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match… — James Gleick
Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we want is not… — Heinrich Hertz

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