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• The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!

  William Shakespeare

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Common

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1570

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• Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!

  Charles Lamb

  Bravery, Might, Tongue

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• Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.

  Joseph Addison

  Kindness, Lying, Men

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.2953, Delphi Classics

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• Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

  William Blake

  Art, Money, Christianity

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.360, Pearson Education

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• 　When the leaders speak of peace
  　The common folk know
  　That war is coming
  　When the leaders curse war
  　The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread
  　I go to the market where lies are bought
  　Hopefully
  　I take up my place among the sellers.
  　

  Bertolt Brecht

  War, Lying, Common Folk

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• One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.

  Publilius Syrus

  Men, Evil, Wickedness

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• Cursing dads are terrifying, you know? Cursing dads are - I don't know why, but no. It just doesn't seem to me that that would be funny. I mean it might be - you could try it and see. I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.

  Ian Frazier

  Dad, Mean, Thinking

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• I curse in everyday life, but usually when I stub my toe. The topics I'm discussing, it's not necessary to curse. I found [cursing] is a sign that a joke is not finished or well-written.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Everyday, Toes, Topics

  "He's bringing home the bacon, from clubs to Super Bowl ads". "The Plain Dealer" Newspaper, February 9, 2007.

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• Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

  James Altucher

  Love You, Sacrifice, Ideas

  "Wall Street’s ‘Eat What You Kill’ Motto Is the Only Way to Live" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2013.

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• You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Religious, Father, Blessing

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien (2012). “The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis”, p.26, Princeton University Press

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• As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Might, Turns, Speakers

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• A great deal of what passes by the name of patriotism in these days consists of the merest bigotry and narrow-mindedness; exhibiting itself in national prejudice, national conceit, and national hatred. It does not show itself in deeds, but in boastings--in howlings, gesticulations, and shrieking helplessly for help--in flying flags and singing songs--and in perpetual grinding at the hurdy-gurdy of long-dead grievances and long-remedied wrongs. To be infested by such a patriotism as this is perhaps among the greatest curses that can befall any country.

  Samuel Smiles

  Country, Song, Names

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.27

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• Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It hardens the heart, blunts the finer susceptibilities, and transforms into a fiend what under more favourable circumstances might have been a human being.

  Arnold Bennett

  Heart, Blessing, May

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• If one day I look out from my cabin's porch and see a row of windmills spinning in the distance, I won't curse them. I will praise them. It will mean we are finally getting somewhere.

  David Suzuki

  Distance, Mean, One Day

  "The Beauty of Wind Farms". www.newscientist.com. April 13, 2005.

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• I have this mistress: show business. I get a lot of love and adulation from outside, and [my wife] lets me have that, while she does all the real-life stuff that counts — making sure the kids are going to school and all that. I married a saint — well, a saint who curses.

  Ray Romano

  Real, School, Kids

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• A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced.

  Aeschylus

  Wrath, People, Danger

  Aeschylus (2014). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides”, p.16, Everyman's Library

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• Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows. Its women weep for their fallen and they lament for the future of the children of the race. It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table and who has been sheltered in labor's house to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both labor and its adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace.

  John L. Lewis

  Children, Race, Israel

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• We are all pirates at heart. There is not one of us who hasn't had a little larceny in his soul. And which one of us wouldn't soar if God had thought there was merit in the idea? So, when we see one of those great widespread pirates soaring across the grain of sea winds we thrill, and we long, and, if we are honest, we curse that we must be men every day. Why not one day a bird! There's an idea, now, one day out of seven a pirate in the sky. What puny power a man can attain by comparison. Compare a 747 with a bird and blush!

  Roger Caras

  Heart, Men, Wind

  Roger A. Caras (1971). “Birds in flight”, Westover Pub. Co

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• The curse of God must have been on our people when we chose him out of so many noble sons of the South, who would have carried us safely through this Revolution.

  P. G. T. Beauregard

  War, Son, People

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• It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Humanity, Horrible, Situation

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• I have no idea what `classic anti-Semitism' is. I'm not familiar with this term. I don't know where it comes from and what connection it has to France and what is occurring here. There wasn't anti-Semitism in France. An isolated incident can always happen. When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism. In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Years, Law, Ideas

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• The greatest gift God gave us is also our greatest curse, which is the free will. We are made in God's image, the Bible says, which means we have the ability to love him or not love him, to reject him or not reject him.

  Rick Warren

  Mean, Ability To Love, Free Will

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• The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is what it is, but I look at it as a challenge

  Drew Brees

  Taken, Talking, People

  "Drew Brees talks 'Madden NFL 11'". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.espn.com. April 30, 2010.

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• Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought.

  Steve Sailer

  Racism, Eras, Logical

  "Banned by Free Republic?". www.vdare.com. January 03, 2001.

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• A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that.

  Steven Erikson

  Civilization, Poison, World

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