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I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well.
Henry Rollins
Good
Sadness
Pain
Think
Our
Unable
Carry
Entire
Haunt
Seem
Entire Lives
Good Times
Almost
Well
Go
Huge
Times
Them
Capacity
Us
Comparison
Lives
Things
Humans
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson
Love
Love Is
Unable
Immortality
Die
Loved
Censorship no longer works by hiding information from you; censorship works by flooding you with immense amounts of misinformation, of irrelevant information, of funny cat videos, until you're just unable to focus.
Yuval Noah Harari
Funny
You
Censorship
Videos
Focus
Immense
Unable
Hiding
Cat
Misinformation
Longer
Until
Irrelevant
Just
Information
Works
Flooding
Amount
In 1939, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, six million Jews and seven million others unable to defend themselves were exterminated.
Joe Wurzelbacher
Gun
Gun Control
Control
Jews
Others
Seven
Unable
Were
Germany
Six
Established
Themselves
Million
Defend
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou
Education
Ignorance
People
School
Mother
College
Some People
Understanding
Intolerant
Unable
Must
Some
More
Said
Always
Educated
Go
Were
Intelligent
Than
Illiteracy
Professors
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli
You
Man
Men
Ought
Destroyed
Unable
Feared
Take
Retaliate
Merely
Vengeance
Offend
Greatly
Done
Cannot
Either
Them
Injure
Injury
Utterly
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle
God
Beast
Live
Society
Unable
Must
He
Himself
Because
Either
Who
Sufficient
Need
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Andrew Carnegie
People
Matter
Mediocrity
Other
Unable
Must
Talents
Content
How
Motivate
Impressive
Themselves
Who
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Life
Government
Good
Healthy
Birth
Conservatives
Liberals
Unable
Seem
Somehow
Namely
Powers
Government Agencies
Been
Endowed
Skepticism
Acquire
Agencies
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated.
Joe Wurzelbacher
Gun
Gun Control
Control
Unable
Armenians
Were
Established
Turkey
Themselves
Million
Defend
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
Publilius Syrus
Pay
Unable
Fraud
Borrow
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
Brendan Behan
Day
Every Day
Seen
Every
Unable
Critics
Like
Know
How
Done
Themselves
Harem
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal
Man
Evil
Sit
Unable
Still
Discovered
Human
Being
Room
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.
Henri Nouwen
Love
Leadership
People
Power
Healthy
Control
Christian
Relationships
Intimate
Unable
Give
Develop
Instead
Know
Most
How
Been
Who
Many
Receive
Ocean acidification is often referred to as osteoporosis of the oceans because as acidity rises, shell building creatures such as lobster, oyster, crab, shrimp, and coral are unable to extract the calcium carbonate from the water that they need to build their shells and are thus unable to survive.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
Water
Build
Building
Ocean
Extract
Lobster
Unable
Rises
Thus
Because
Oyster
Shell
Shells
Oceans
Referred
Crab
Survive
Often
To Survive
Shrimp
Creatures
Coral
Need
Osteoporosis
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anais Nin
Say
Unable
Writer
Role
Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.
Federica Mogherini
Justice
Peace
Suffering
Revenge
Hatred
Crimes
Elusive
Unable
Unpunished
More
Remains
Leading
Since
Most
Obtain
Without
Redress
Go
Goal
Impunity
Victims
Acts
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
Jean Cocteau
Man
Myth
Few
Alcohol
Unable
Lies
Seeks
Give
He
Withdraw
Him
Himself
Comfort
Does
His
Escape
Any
Inaccuracy
Means
Moments
Disposal
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
Plato
Soul
Eyes
Vision
Unable
Divine
Endure
Multitudes
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
Charles Baudelaire
Man
Honor
Unable
Could
Take
Without
Understand
How
Am
His
Hands
Disgust
Newspaper
Shudder
Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.
Chief Seattle
Angry
Youth
Women
Old
Black
Men
Young
Our
Relentless
Unable
Some
Restrain
Faces
Cruel
Wrong
Thus
Real
Been
Women Are
Hearts
Often
Impulsive
Young Men
Them
Old Men
Old Women
Paint
Grow
Ever
Imaginary
Most of us have considerable prosperity in our lives. Often, we are so busy pursuing our unmet desires that we are unable to enjoy all that we already have. Allowing ourselves to really appreciate the prosperity we have created is a big step toward opening to even greater fulfillment.
Shakti Gawain
Prosperity
Big
Busy
Enjoy
Considerable
Our
Our Lives
Unable
Ourselves
Pursuing
Allowing
Step
Toward
Opening
Most
Greater
Often
Us
Created
Really
Fulfillment
Even
Lives
Desires
Appreciate
What I am unable to understand with the people who associate themselves with Trump is their willingness to overlook the dishonesty, the indecency, the lack of empathy, to be asked to go out every single day and why.
Daniel Pfeiffer
Day
People
Single
Every
Unable
Out
Willingness
Empathy
Single Day
Understand
Am
Overlook
Go
Trump
Lack
Dishonesty
Themselves
Asked
Who
Why
Associate
Every Single Day
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
Education
Worth
Reading
Distinguish
Unable
Worth Reading
Able
Vast
Read
Produced
Population
If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.
Jose Rizal
Philippines
Will
Independence
Rest
Heroic
Assured
France
Dare
Unable
Secure
Has-Been
Neither
Stubborn
Take
Still
Been
Nor
Up
Germany
Hold
After
Conflicts
Spain
Holland
Less
England
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
Nigel Lawson
Unable
Govern
Choose
Appear
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