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• Unless we possess high spiritual qualifications, there is no doubt that the events life throws upon us will give rise to frustration, emotional turmoil, and other distorted states of consciousness. These imperfect states of mind in turn give rise to imperfect activities, and the seeds of suffering are ever planted in a steady flow.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Emotional, Giving

  Dalai Lama (1994). “The Path to Enlightenment”, p.129, Shambhala

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• When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up & express their anger & frustration if you refuse to hear their cries. A riot is the language of the unheard.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jobs, Cutting, People

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• Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams.

  Pope John XXIII

  Inspiring, Dream, Hope

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• That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Moving, Artist, People

  "Genevieve Gorder trades places in 'Town Haul'". Interview with Jay Bobbin, poststar.com. January 21, 2005.

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• I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

  Dick Dale

  Patience, Anger, Play

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• You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that.

  Andy Partridge

  Hate, Joy, Fans

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• Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

  Anna Lindh

  Ideas, People, Doe

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• We started the company out of frustration with the employer that we had because we were building great stuff and there was no way that this stuff was ever going to get into the hands of the people who could use it

  John Warnock

  Hands, People, Way

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• There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Country, People, Consciousness

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• In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children.

  Parminder Nagra

  Children, Teenager, Character

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

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• It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

  John Phillips

  Life, Horse, Victory

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• When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

  Paul Wellstone

  Disappointment, Believe, Political

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• But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Needs, Voters, Problem

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• We must not condemn to frustration those whose job it is to protect us by failing to provide them with the necessary resources to meet the threats they face.

  Joe Lieberman

  Jobs, Faces, Failing

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• The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

  Peter Ustinov

  Back Alleys, Social, Confrontation

  Nicholas Fraser, Kate Caffrey, Peter Ustinov, Carl Sagan, Eric Sevareid (1978). “Aristotle Onassis”

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• You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

  Alexander Haig

  Middle East, Looks, Tribalism

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• In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.

  Chen-Ning Yang

  Anger, Emotional, Expression

  Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific

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• Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

  Mordecai Richler

  Writing, Dying, Flicker

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• The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.

  Maurice Jarre

  Travel, Kings, Adventure

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• I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Suffering, Share

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

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• It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.

  Clancy Brown

  Father, Son, Adults

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

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• Since I'm a mother and a wife, I have to have passion or the frustration would win out. But I love managing people. The product is second to managing the people. And marketing to consumers is so challenging because it is evolving constantly.

  Andrea Jung

  Mother, Passion, Winning

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• It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.

  Dave Matthews

  Criminals, Lines, Way

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  A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

  Chuck Noll

  Motivational Sports, Athlete, Winning

  "Chuck Noll, Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers coach, dies at 82", www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2014.

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• Working in an underdeveloped land for two or three years, the volunteer will often find that his work is routine and full of frustration.

  Sargent Shriver

  Land, Two, Years

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