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Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others. Beatrice Webb

Great Others Ourselves Classes Fact Misery Individuals Learn Renunciation Trying Avoid Bring

If we had created rules to automatically turn up the required down payment on a home when there's a housing bubble, or just say that the mortgage on a property cannot be larger than the value of the property three years ago, the amount of human misery that would've been avoided would've been enormous. Bill Foster

Home Property Value Three Down Enormous Say Rules Misery Bubble Had Mortgage Housing Been Years Years Ago Up Than Human Just Automatically Cannot Turn Created Required Payment Avoided Larger Amount

There is winning and there is misery. Bill Parcells

Winning Misery

When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery. Billy Collins

Look at all the misery in the Middle East, for example. All these countries have Islam in common, and far too few dare to criticize Islam as an ideology, and what it's doing to these countries. I know I might get punched in the face for saying these things, but my conviction is that less religion in the world would be better. Bjorn Ulvaeus

Saying Religion World Better Face Example Ideology Islam Few Conviction Too Punched Dare East Would Would-Be Criticize Misery Countries For Example Know Look Doing Get Common Middle Middle East Might Far Less Things

You never stop thinking about technique, but really, the reason we're actors is because of the sheer joy of those few moments you get every now and again where you're totally present. The rest is just struggle and misery. Caitlin Fitzgerald

You Struggle Joy Rest Few Every Thinking Those Totally About Misery Never Never Stop Sheer Because Get Just Stop Where Again Really Reason Moments Now Actor Technique Present

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate. Caleb Carr

Believe Appropriate Misery Bought Like Most Because Friends Mountain

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery. Camille Paglia

Fashion Women Old Hair Half Young Complaint Those Out Android Seem Lifeless Misery Fad Put Like Spray Tanning Afflicted Orange Ladies Children Barbie Should Lesser Moments Round Thick Actor Extensions Creep Necks

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark. Christian Bale

Dark Misery Attraction Go Intentionally Certainly

I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together is the lowest it has been in the last series of Presidents, even going back to Jimmy Carter. So I think the Bush administration is doing a good job. Cliff Stearns

Good Together Inflation Good Job Job Think Added Back Jimmy Jimmy Carter Presidents Say Colleague Has-Been Administration Would Carter Misery Doing Been Unemployment Going Bush Bush Administration Lowest Even Series Last

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others. Daisaku Ikeda

War Others Our Scale Strive Must Rather Misery Develop Empathize Feel Caused Than Staggering Capacity Depth Turning Away Sufferings

If you don't love what you are doing, it could be misery. Dakota Fanning

Love You Could Misery Doing

Growth is usually uncomfortable. If you're looking for comfort, you will more than likely feel tired and old earlier than you want, and the misery of your caged soul will always be looming nearby. Debbie Ford

Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that line Oxford Street, the hopelessness of even thinking about driving. Deborah Moggach

Free Cycling Thinking Way Ourselves Hopelessness About Only Misery Driving Line Tube Oxford Buses Even Street

There's always a fundamental misery that's with me that I always relate to some bit of loss or something. I don't know what it is about me, but even though I'm happy on the surface, there's something there, I guess. So, it all comes from wherever it comes from. I really don't know where that is. Don McLean

Me Happy Relate Guess Bit Though Some About Something Misery Know Always Surface Loss Where Wherever Really Even Fundamental

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained. Duke of Wellington

Battle Lost Misery Greatest Gained Next

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. Edward Gibbon

Cold Sympathy Relation Our Distant Misery

The period that directly follows the dissolution of a long term relationship is extremely volatile, with emotions running the gamut from misery to elation to relief to terror. Emily V. Gordon

Relationship Emotions Long Dissolution Extremely Relief Running Follows Directly Volatile Misery Long-Term Term Period Terror Elation

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us. Eric Cantona

Happy Think Seeing Entirely Misery Around Us

Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil. Faith Hunter

I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that. Fay Wray

Happy Thought Doubt Saw Would No Doubt About Misery He Talent Talented Him Became Go His Just Believed Based

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