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• Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Family, Running, Law

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1956). “A harvest of stories, from a half century of writing”

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• a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Grief, Sorrow, Mistress

  Elsie De Wolfe (1974). “After all”, Ayer Co Pub

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• don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?

  Edna Ferber

  Hate, People, Hate People

  Edna Ferber (2014). “Great Son”, p.72, Vintage

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• Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power, The world must follow you!

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  House, World, May

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)”, p.1525, Delphi Classics

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• I think it's important to recognize that you can't have 100 per cent security and also then have 100 per cent privacy and zero inconvenience.... In the abstract you can complain about Big Brother and how this is a potential program run amok, but when you actually look at the details then I think we've struck the right balance.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Brother, Zero

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• For senators to complain that they didn't know this was happening, we had many, many meetings that have been both classified and unclassified that members have been invited to.

  Harry Reid

  Nsa, Members, Meetings

  "Earlier Denials Put Intelligence Chief in Awkward Position". Statement to the Press, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it.

  Ricky Gervais

  Beach, Sailor, Wave

  "Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant ('The Ricky Gervais Show')". Interview with Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. April 15, 2010.

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• Anybody who is a professional athlete who has a social media account on any of the networks, when they sign up for that account, they subject themselves to all of the criticisms and all of the praises that may or may not be out there. So you can't get on social media and complain about the people because that's what you know you're dealing with. You have to hear it. You don't have to respond. Me personally, I don't respond to the negativity. It's gonna be there. I read it. It keeps me grounded.

  George Wilson

  Athlete, Media, People

  KSK Interview, uproxx.com. October 29, 2012.

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• I preach with the hope that whoever is inspired, encouraged, intrigued, curious by my life on any level, whether it be parents saying they showed my video to their kids because they were complaining. It is the hope that that parent will go a bit deeper and know that ultimately Nick actually puts his hope into something bigger than himself. He puts it in Jesus Christ.

  Nick Vujicic

  Jesus, Kids, Parent

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• People always complain about something. If you face yourself and stand up strong, you're OK. You can't go wrong.

  James Hetfield

  Strong, People, Faces

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• The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual or aesthetic sermons. Daniel Webster used to complain of some of the preaching to which he listened. "In the house of God" he wanted to meditate "upon the simple varieties, and the undoubted facts of religion;" not upon mysteries and abstractions.

  Austin Phelps

  Intelligent, Simple, House

  Austin Phelps (1882). “Men and Books: Or Studies in Homiletics; Lectures Introductory to The Theory of Preaching”

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• Don't make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Speaking Up, Earth, Christ

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• Some people act as if there were a penalty for carrying concealed troubles. They exhibit them at every opportunity, begging for sympathy, even condescending to accept pity. Such persons never realize that the very ones to whom they are complaining are often struggling under a burden greater than their own.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Struggle, Opportunity, People

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• I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Dream, Children, Reality

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• In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Sound, Nails

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• We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

  Fanny Burney

  Affliction, Pleasure, Relate

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3859, Delphi Classics

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• Real optimism has reason to complain but prefers to smile.

  William Arthur Ward

  Real, Optimism, Reason

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• If anything diminishes a person, it is the cancer of constant complaining.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Cancer, Constant, Persons

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• Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, let them complain over what might have been, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, let them be discouraged, let them be revengeful and vindictive, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, let them become materialistic and empty, but not you. Let others become ungrateful and stop praying, but not you! Let others give up, but not you! For you know in whom you believe and you know that He is always able. Now, that's you!

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Hurt, Giving Up

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• When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.

  Baal Shem Tov

  Father, Taken, Son

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• Complaining is an insult to God.

  Monica Mcgowan Johnson

  Insult

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• Grumbling, as things are at present arranged in this world, does not always, nor I might say often, do good.

  Mary Louisa Molesworth

  Grumbling, Doe, World

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• Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. It's something that has deep roots in modernism, stretching from the Futurists' use of typography to Pound's use of ideograms to concrete poetry.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Roots, Use, Pounds

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• There are a lot of people who think celebrities shouldn't complain, that the photography is just a price to pay for having this career. I guess that's bizarre. What they don't understand is that this is all stuff that's really new.

  Megan Fox

  Photography, Thinking, Careers

  "What Megan Fox Looks for in a Man (and Turtle)". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. August 8, 2014.

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• There is more opportunity nowadays at easier and better prices than ever before. I have businesses in probably fifty countries throughout the world and it's never been easier to do business throughout the world. Never. I don't know what people are complaining about.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Country, Opportunity, People

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