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• Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

  William Blake

  Sympathy, Peace, Grief

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'On Another's Sorrow'

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• Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Mean, Forever, Transition

  David Wojnarowicz (1994). “David Wojnarowicz: brush fires in the social landscape”

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• Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Death, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, the kind that women use in villages to pull water from wells; the clavicle curved around his neck in high relief, like a dog's collar; cuts and nicks and scars, like little whip marks in his flesh, ran down his chest and waist, reaching down below his hip bones into his buttocks. The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

  Aravind Adiga

  Dog, Father, Cutting

  FaceBook post by Aravind Adiga from Nov 30, 2013

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• I can personally feel the relief myself in my audiences when I bring up Obama because there was a lot of anti-Obama sentiment out there before the capture of bin Laden.

  Tommy Davidson

  Capture, Bin Laden, Feels

  "Comedy Post-Bin Laden" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. May 16, 2011.

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• The family is the world's greatest welfare agency, and the most successful. What the federal government has done in welfare is small and trifling compared to what the families of America do daily, caring for their own, relieving family distresses, providing medical care and education for one another, and so on. No civil government could begin to finance what the families underwrite daily. The family's welfare program, for all its failures from time to time, is proportionately the world's most successful operation by an incomparable margin.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Family, Successful, Caring

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• Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

  Stephen King

  Tongue

  Stephen King (2009). “Nightmares & Dreamscapes”, p.722, Simon and Schuster

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• The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects.

  James Madison

  Mean, Causes, Inference

  James Madison, John Jay (1847). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.35

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• Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Torture

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• The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.

  Auguste Rodin

  Children, Flower, Standing Out

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• The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.

  William Hazlitt

  Sometimes, Natural, Refinement

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1336, Delphi Classics

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• Relief has its place. But what the people need is not relief, but release - release of their own potential for development.

  Y. C. James Yen

  People, Mind Your Own Business, Needs

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• There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

  George Eliot

  Music, Grief, Men

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1224, Wordsworth Editions

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• Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.

  Helen Rowland

  Husband, Hands, Giving

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.58, Lulu.com

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• Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Book, Reading, Melancholy

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• Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Fiber, Moral

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• There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.

  Emil Zatopek

  Motivational, Workout, Race

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• It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?"

  Orhan Pamuk

  Nobel, Ask Me, Prize

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The only award I've been nominated for is a Scottish BAFTA. A Scottish BAFTA, it's like hearing that the animals have their own Olympics. You hear all this stuff about TV being faked. Of course it's faked. It's all faked. That documentary a couple of weeks ago about tribal warfare among monkeys, that was all filmed in a Yates wine lodge in Dundee. Comic Relief is faked. Everybody in Africa is fine.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Couple, Humor

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• What you feel when you're writing is the relief of thinking: if you write the sentence correctly, you're clarifying. If you write the right sentence, nothing feels as good.

  Vivian Gornick

  Writing, Thinking, Feels

  "'We knew we were not liberated and were never going to be liberated. But we knew what liberation was'". Interview with Hayden Bennett, believermagblog.wordpress.com. March 24, 2014.

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• I am arguing that it is a mistake for trans activists to focus our resources and attention on winning inclusion in legal equality frameworks, such as anti-discrimination laws and hate crimes laws, that will not provide relief from the life-shortening conditions trans populations are facing. Winning legal equality - getting the law to cast us as victims of discrimination who the state will protect - will not support our survival.

  Dean Spade

  Hate, Mistake, Winning

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Legal reform has significant dangers: changing only the window-dressing of harmful systems but leaving the violence of the systems in tact, failing to provide actual relief for those facing the worst conditions, and legitimizing or expanding systems of harm.

  Dean Spade

  Leaving, Reform, Window Dressing

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• When we approach legal reform work, we can ask questions like: Will this provide actual relief to people facing violence or harm or will it primarily be a symbolic change? Will this divide our constituency by offering relief only to people with certain privileged statuses (such as people with lawful immigration status, people with jobs, married people, etc.)?

  Dean Spade

  Jobs, Offering, People

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.

  Joshua Homme

  Thinking, Understanding, Notion

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I consider myself as a character actor. I like the sports analogy, which I do all the time; I'm an avid sports guy. I'm a golfer, but I grew up as sort of an avid fan and participant in baseball, and I'm like a relief pitcher. My job is to come in and throw strikes.

  Clint Howard

  Sports, Baseball, Jobs

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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