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• Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Thinking, Want

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• I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation.

  Robert E. Lee

  Country, War, Sacrifice

  Letter to his son, G. W. Custis Lee, January 23, 1861.

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• Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounded would have given far more than that to escape as they have, and the unwounded regard the money as a consolation prize for still being here.

  Robert Graves

  War, Survivor, Cash

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• But you're not really allowed to complain about any of this, You're just supposed to be grateful. And obviously-I get it. You're lucky and you should appreciate your luck. But, I mean, it just seems if you even hint that there's a bad side to any of this people will be like-Liar! I guess it's because people want to have it as a dream

  Robert Pattinson

  Dream, Liars, Grateful

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• Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them.

  Friedrich Ruckert

  Spring, Heart, Trying

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• I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day task of painting. What task worth doing isn't worth daily effort? Do you think Michelangelo was having fun the whole time he was on his back painting the Sistine Chapel's ceiling?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  Teenreads Interview, www.teenreads.com. September 2006.

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• Everybody has a part of her body that she doesn't like, but I've stopped complaining about mine because I don't want to critique nature's handiwork ... My job is simply to allow the light to shine out of the masterpiece.

  Alfre Woodard

  Inspiring, Jobs, Light

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• I will be writing to the relevant authorities to complain but I'm wasting my breath.

  Joe Royle

  Football, Writing, Authority

  "Boothroyd's shoot-out trial raises the play-off stakes" by Mike Ansted, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2006.

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• Did you hear charming Karren Brady this morning complaining about sexism? Do me a favour, love.

  Richard Keys

  Football, Morning, Favour

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• A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said with a funny wrinkle in his eyes: I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I slowly discovered that my interruptions were my work.

  Henri Nouwen

  Teaching, Eye, Wrinkles

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• If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me.

  Larry Flynt

  Body, Censorship, Obscene

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• Girls say they like a sensitive man, but then they complain about my premature ejaculation.

  Tom Sims

  Girl, Sex, Men

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• Customers should complain more. You know, food's expensive nowadays. And these sommeliers come along with their thousand-page wine list and practically throw it in your lap. They're all businessmen and know that customers get intimidated and buy something overpriced. I say, always put them on the spot. 'You come back to me with a red wine at $30, $40. Come back to me with a choice.'

  Gordon Ramsay

  Success, Wine, Choices

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• The farms you live in will be yours for free. When mineworkers strike, it will be to complain that we are giving them too much money.

  Julius Malema

  Giving, Voting, Too Much

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• It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Being Thankful, Habit, Given

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• Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.

  Linus Torvalds

  Live By, Can Do

  "Linux: Linus on Choice". Post the Linux Kernel Mailing List, web.archive.org. September 24, 2003.

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• Seriously, if you complain about going to a Paris fashion show, you have officially lost all perspective on life as we know it. And I have little kids who are hard to be away from sometimes when school's going back and there are tons of things that you're missing. But you know, there's that great Billie Jean King expression: "Pressure is a privilege." We can all deal.

  Cynthia Leive

  Fashion, Kings, School

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• You create a good future by creating a good present. How do you do that? By recognizing the goodness that is already inherent in the present moment, even in the midst of challenges. Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Karma, Self

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• Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Love, Power, Men

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• I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can see, people read it when they were half stoned and listening to the TV. Then they come back and say gee, it's impossible to figure out what's going on in a story.

  Gene Wolfe

  Writing, People, Listening

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• O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.

  John Milton

  Grief, Loss, Dark

  John Milton (1853). “The poetical works of John Milton, with life. Complete ed”, p.359

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• Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.

  Enoch Powell

  Inspirational, Life, Media

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• A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Envy, Risen

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.2

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• Good weather all the week, but come the weekend the weather stinks. When the weather is too hot they complain, too cold they complain, and when it's just right, they're watching TV.

  Rita Rudner

  Weekend, Weather, Tvs

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• I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  War, Struggle, Mean

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1862). “Democracy in America”, p.486

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