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By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
Adolf Hitler
Life
People
Paradise
Hell
Extremely
See
Propaganda
Wretched
Make
Heaven
Sustained
Skillful
Use
Even
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
Adolf Hitler
Life
People
Paradise
Made
Clever
Hell
Other
Consider
Way
Constant
See
Propaganda
Wretched
Through
Most
Also
Sort
Round
Application
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Plato
Injustice
Made
More
Wretched
He
Than
Who
Ever
Suffers
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Leonardo da Vinci
Ignorance
Open Your Eyes
Eyes
Wretched
Open
Mislead
Mortals
Blinding
Does
Us
Your
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Madness
Evil
Before
Nothing
Wretched
Foolish
Misfortunes
Anticipate
Expecting
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Andrew Carnegie
Class
Money
Nothing
Else
Possesses
Wretched
Which
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
John McCain
War
Fool
Reality
Fraud
Only
Wretched
Could
Cruel
Beyond
Description
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
Plautus
Man
Mind
Guilt
Nothing
More
Wretched
Than
Conscious
I don't think of depression as contagious. Other depressed people challenge the idea - which can be very persistent and irritating - that there is something odd about you: that you are unique with regard to this wretched state.
Spike Milligan
Depression
You
People
Challenge
Think
Other
State
About
Something
Wretched
Contagious
Idea
Odd
Very
Persistent
Regard
Irritating
Which
Depressed
Unique
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Good
Eyes
Memory
Better
Evil
Made
Once
Saw
Those
Hid
Out
Wretched
Imperfect
He
Good Works
Rendered
Blind
Him
Lord
However
Been
Sins
Blotted
Them
Who
Deeds
Works
Even
O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
Marcus Tullius Cicero
You
Man
Wretched
Know
Also
Because
How
Just
Just Because
The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
Sai Baba
Happiness
Joy
Miserable
Plenty
Would
Rise
Wretched
Soon
Steps
Mosque
Climb
How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
Alice James
Myself
Good
Respect
Sick
Everyone
Out
Embody
Wretched
Could
Hours
Make
How
How Much
Selfishness
Gets
Being
Burst
If I Could
Much
Should
Twenty-Four
Coming out of 'Wretched and Divine,' I was still wanting to explore the more theatrical elements of songwriting. That led to Andy Black.
Andy Biersack
Black
Out
Andy
More
Wretched
Divine
Songwriting
Still
Coming
Led
Wanting
Theatrical
Explore
Elements
I think, on any given day, somebody could help out a homeless person and cuss out somebody that cut them off in traffic, and I think that everybody has that inside them: it's just how you live that balance - so I think everybody is 'Wretched and Divine.'
Andy Biersack
Day
You
Balance
Somebody
Live
Think
Everybody
Out
Inside
Given
Wretched
Could
Divine
How
Traffic
Off
Person
Any
Just
Cuss
Them
Cut
Help
Homeless
What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
Augusto Roa Bastos
Memory
Words
Wretched
Remembers
Forgets
Behind
Happens
Them
Your
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
Blaise Pascal
Great
Man
Tree
Wretched
He
Know
Himself
Knows
Does
Greatness
Itself
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
Fanny Kemble
Hope
Day
Single
Live
Our
Worst
Wretched
Could
Forced
Single Day
Discomfort
North
Which
Poorest
Keep
Servant
Servants
What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.
Georges Bizet
Beautiful
Art
Wretched
Beautiful Art
Profession
The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is.
Ivor Novello
Beautiful
Man
Face
Long
Thinking
Heroine
Must
Case
Wretched
Always
How
Quite
Often
Bury
Might
Shoulder
In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again.
James Buchan
Soul
Financial
Past
Before
Nothing
Pessimist
Circles
Boom
Markets
Only
Sees
Bear
Wretched
Falling
Happened
Which
Again
Eternal
Bust
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
Jean de la Bruyere
Happy
Seeks
Entirely
Wretched
Make
Loved
Loved One
Cannot
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
Josiah Strong
Increase
City
More
Only
Wretched
Proportion
Becomes
Does
Condition
Poor
Growth
We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.
Jupiter Hammon
Time
World
Matter
Miserable
Live
Wretched
How
Heaven
Little
Us
Little Time
Prepares
Politicians today are not highly regarded... there seem to be people young and old and in the middle saying that they have never heard such wretched debates.
Malcolm Fraser
Today
Saying
People
Old
Young
Politicians
Seem
Wretched
Never
Highly
Heard
Debates
Middle
Regarded
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
Mikhail Bakunin
Society
Our
Wretched
Could
Individual
Develop
Generations
Countless
Most
Without
Exist
Cumulative
Efforts
Social
Even
Present
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