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• 'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Complaining, Red

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• The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.

  Irving Howe

  Reading, Can Do

  "Philip Roth Reconsidered" by Irving Howe, Vol. 54, December, 1972.

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• The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony.

  Nicholson Baker

  Song, Nice, Giving

  "Four Protest Songs". www.newyorker.com. October 8, 2012.

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• We always have the potential to rise. Rise out of our slump. Rise out of our negative thoughts. Rise out of our comfort zone. Rise out of our complaints. GET UP AND RISE. Rising is a choice that's one powerful thought away.

  Kris Carr

  Powerful, Choices, Slumps

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• The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.

  Jack Dorsey

  Brother, Stupid, Useless Things

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• Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that you have some sort of complaint that you were far happier not knowing about.

  John Mortimer

  Mistake, Knowing, Choices

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• The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights degraded into a generalized sense of entitlement, the demand for specific recognition into a generalized demand for attention and the anger at specific injustice into a generalized feeling of grievance and resentment. The result is a culture of entitlement, attention-seeking and complaint.

  Michael Foley

  Rights, Feelings, Culture

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.

  Alan Cohen

  Appreciation, Math, Quality

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• Although God certainly knows all our needs, praying for them changes our attitude from complaint to praise and enables us to participate in God’s personal plan for our lives.

  Ray Stedman

  Attitude, Needs, Praying

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• I was getting tired of hearing the complaint, "My kid could do this," and "We don't get it. What's modern art? Blah, blah, blah." And I wondered what would really happen if you gave people what they wanted, something they always look at.

  John Baldessari

  Art, Tired, Kids

  "Just an Artist". Interview with Susan Sollins, art21.org. July 2008.

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• Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkien? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene.

  N.D. Wilson

  Shadow, Finals, Roles

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World”, p.54, Thomas Nelson

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• It is said if an organization listens to the complaint of a customer and the problem is fixed, the customer remains a loyal customer and tells approximately seven others about the experience. Conversely, if a person is ignored and the problem not fixed, that customer will not deal with that organization anymore and will tell approximately twenty other people about the negative experience.

  Phil Pringle

  Negative Experiences, Organization, Loyal Customers

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• The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. This is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big.

  Jim Rohn

  Apology, Maturity, Harvest Time

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 17, 2015

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• If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked at, investigated, drugged, charged, but not listened to.

  Oliver Sacks

  Science, Medicine, Physicians

  Oliver Sacks (2013). “Migraine”, p.309, Vintage

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• The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves; the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Writing, May

  Samuel Johnson (2003). “Selected Essays”, p.525, Penguin UK

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• Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.

  John Prine

  Philosophy, Bewildered

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• One of my complaints with American TV characters is that they all have a particular schtick, a hook.

  Kevin McKidd

  Character, Hook, Tvs

  "Today" Interview, www.today.com. Ocotber 1, 2007.

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• Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Suffering, Reason

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio medici. The garden of Cyprus”, p.315

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• A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, "because Mr. Challiapin always dies too soon." "Madam, you must be profoundly in error," said Sir Thomas, "No operatic star has yet died half soon enough for me."

  Thomas Beecham

  Stars, Errors, Soon Enough

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• Complaining is never powerful because at the root of a complaint is powerlessness

  Dennis Prager

  Powerful, Roots, Complaining

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• Customer complaints are the schoolbooks from which we learn.

  Lou Gerstner

  Service Culture, Inspirational Customer Service, Inspirational Service

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• The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Religious, Heart

  Thomas Brooks “Heaven On Earth”, Lulu.com

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• I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Trying, Strive

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I am amazed at the seeker of purity
  When time for polishing comes
  Complaints of harsh treatment
  Love is a lawsuit
  Without evidence, you will not win
  My son, when one beats the rug The beating is not intended against the rug
  But against the dust inside the rug
  My son, that harsh treatment
  Is not intended against you
  But against the ill qualities inside you

  Rumi

  Son, Love Is, Winning

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• If your users have many questions, it's a failure of your primary site design. It becomes not so much customer support, as much as customer complaints.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Design, Support, Site

  "GE brings customer service to light" by Dana Gardner, www.cnn.com. October 12, 1999.

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