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  Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Apology, Maturity

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 24, 2016

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• It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Ignorance, Artist, Stupidity

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• Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

  Benny Hill

  Funny, Good Life, Military

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

  John Milton

  Wise, Men, Liberty

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 1

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• I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

  Meg Ryan

  Good Life, Existential Angst, Existentialism

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• I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits.

  Charles Goodyear

  Fruit

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• Life, I've got lots of friends. I don't complain.

  Salma Hayek

  Lots Of Friends

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• Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

  Denzel Washington

  Voting, Standards, Not Voting

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• No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.

  Yasmine Bleeth

  Dream, People, Hollywood

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• Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.

  John Dryden

  Light, Giving, Suffering

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.124

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• When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll say you can't complain.

  Leonard Cohen

  Lying, Rain, Fallen

  Song: Waiting For The Miracle, Album: The Future, 1992

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• In your cocoon, occasionally you shout complaints, such as, "Leave me alone!" "Bug off!" "I want to be who I am!"... which comes from fighting against your environment... You can raise your head and just take a little peek out of the cocoon... The environment is friendly. It is called "Planet Earth.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Fighting, Who I Am, Leave Me Alone

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• Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Tired, Sake, Goodness

  Paul Brody, Kenneth Grahame (2015). “The Life and Works of Kenneth Grahame: A Biography and Collection of Grahame’s Work”, p.118, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification of artistic doubt / the fuzzy edges of sensitivity / old sins / and useless guilt.

  Marlene Dumas

  Ideas, Doubt, Guilt

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• We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain.

  Robert Genn

  Amazing Life, Gifted, Has Beens

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• We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Motivational, Procrastination

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• Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Complaints, Pitiful

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• We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

  George Berkeley

  Inspirational, Dust, Firsts

  A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge introduction, sec. 3 (1710)

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• I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

  Robert Hugh Benson

  Thinking, Insane, Desire

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• I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself.

  George Burns

  Funny, Witty, Forget

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• I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.

  Confucius

  Gratitude, Men, Shoes

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• Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

  Confucius

  Snow, Neighbor, Roof

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• Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Inspirational, Time, Life Is Too Short

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• Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Clothes, Loud

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• We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.

  Dave Barry

  Country, Flipping A Coin, Coins

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