"Time is the cruelest teacher; first she gives……" — Leonard Bernstein

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• Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your… — Rick Reilly
• In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His… — Glenn Cunningham
• No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst… — Jim Butcher
• Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can… — Buster Keaton
• Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not… — Robert Louis Stevenson
• The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government. — Henry Ward Beecher
• Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management… — Jack Welch
• The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses… — Samuel Pisar
• Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be… — Tori Amos
• The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports. — Lord Byron
• The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice. — Irving Howe

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