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Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices. Theodore Dalrymple

Great Mistakes Past Own Our Considering Our Lives Recognize Scant Selected Attention Importance Make Does Versions Psychiatrists Psychologists Us Choices Painful Avoid Resentment Lives Receives Necessity Damage Presents

I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention. Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

Wisdom Knowledge Library World Lost Believe I Believe I Believe That Sums Libraries Scant Vast Throughout Attention Dies Burned Elder

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. Galileo Galilei

Simple Will Drop First Naked Beauty Hidden Scant Seem Facts Cloak Improbable Which Explanation Them Forth Stand Even

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. Quentin Crisp

People Other Pleasantly Minimum Recommend Scant Involvement Limiting Lives

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony. Elizabeth Wurtzel

The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of confidence could develop. Investors have scant patience for the years of good governance - politically fraught fiscal restructuring, austerity and debt rescheduling - it takes to defuse a sovereign-debt crisis. Andrew Ross Sorkin

Government Good Patience Confidence Will Pay Believe Back Says Crisis Fraught Scant Restructuring Could Develop Investor Investors Takes Fiscal Governance Years Austerity Debt Politically Moment Large Good Governance

But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks. Brent Scowcroft

Evidence Scant Attacks Saddam Tie Terrorist Organizations Sept Less Even

At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, but shows scant concern for this human side of criminal justice. Conrad Black

Justice Side Criminal Criminal Justice Scant Percent Concern Supreme Supreme Court Knows Court Least Prisoners American Human Shows

Control orders put people not convicted of any crime under virtual house arrest based on scant evidence. Billed as a security backstop, they proved unreliable. Dominic Raab

People Crime Control Virtual Evidence Security Scant Unreliable Put House Arrest Proved Any Orders Convicted Based

I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life. Doug TenNapel

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company. Elizabeth I

Minds Scant Opinions Friend Differ Where Company

As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true. Felix Dennis

World Rich Sympathy Paradox Scant Darker True Generous Becomes Nonetheless Narrower Celebrity Often Place Newly Less Sudden

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