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I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The full excision, not… — Christopher Hitchens
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it. — Sophocles
Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for… — Gautama Buddha
I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful thing. But now,… — Gautama Buddha
If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. — Dalai Lama
And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who… — Plato
Even those truths that are painful will ultimately increase my wisdom, undergird my strength, make possible my art. — Pat Schneider
Too many journalists and scientists have built their careers on the global-warming alarm. Certain newspapers have staked their reputation on it. The death of this… — Unknown Author
Never have anything to do with likes and dislikes. The absence of what one likes is painful, as is the presence of what one dislikes.… — Gautama Buddha
Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful — Gautama Buddha
I think a lot of us can relate to not choosing to face a painful memory, and something that's a painful past, and wanting to… — Derek Magyar
We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals regarding how to… — Price Pritchett
Pavlov's findings were that some animals learned more quickly if rewarded (by affection, by food, by stroking) each time they showed the right response, while… — Joost Meerloo
The greatest gift . . . is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at… — Charles Macomb Flandrau
What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing. — Stephen Mitchell
Some say that life has no form, that it is extremely diffuse. I think I can agree with them. ... A life without conclusions is… — Soseki Natsume
It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility,… — Phyllis Schlafly
The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose,… — Bertrand Russell
I ultimately realized we had gotten together for the music. It was such a huge thing in our lives. We were at the same age,… — Unknown Author
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful. — Barry Diller
I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau. — Marie Antoinette
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it. — Walter Bagehot
The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority.… — Larry Ellison
I watched him, and I watched him die, and it was so painful for me, because I really loved Freddie Mercury, the way that he… — Dave Mustaine
You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom. — Corazon Aquino

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