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• I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Book, School, Play

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• If we lived in a democratic state our language would have to hurtle, fly, curse, and sing, in all the common American names, all the undeniable and representative and participating voices of everybody here.

  June Jordan

  Names, Voice, Diversity

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.154, Basic Books

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• The Church must take right ground in regard to politics... Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as part of their duty to God... God will bless or curse this nation, according to the course Christians take in politics.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Christian, Country, Religious

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• seizing the swift logic of a woman,
  Curse God and die.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Women, Logic, Seizing

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)”, p.80, Delphi Classics

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• God's love is so extravagant and so inexplicable that he loved us before we were us. He loved us before we existed. He knew many of us would reject him, hate him, curse him, rebel against him. Yet he chose to love us. God loves us because he is love.

  Judah Smith

  Hate, Love Is, Rebel

  Judah Smith (2015). “Jesus Is For You: Stories of God's Relentless Love”, p.15, Thomas Nelson

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• The besetting sin of able men is impatience of contradiction and of criticism. Even those who do their best to resist the temptation, yield to it almost unconsciously and become the tools of toadies and flatterers. "Authorities," "disciples," and "schools" are the curse of science and do more to interfere with the work of the scientific spirit than all its enemies.

  Thomas Huxley

  School, Men, Yield

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1967). “The Essence of T. H. Huxley: Selections Form His Writings”

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• The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.

  Thomas Sowell

  Reality, People, Ordinary

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• My curse on plays
  That have to be set up in fifty ways,
  On the day's war with every knave and dolt,
  Theater business, management of men.

  William Butler Yeats

  War, Drama, Men

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.75, Wordsworth Editions

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• We bless and curse ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Consciousness, Bless

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.123, Penguin

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• Even here in California with more contemporary buildings. I have a real problem with the low doorframes. It's a curse! That's just another of the many problems I have to live with.

  Stephen Merchant

  Real, California, Problem

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• No coach who is coaching kids should ever curse a kid.

  Ray Lewis

  Kids, Coaching, Should

  "Ray Lewis Exclusive: On His New Show and How He Hopes It Will Improve Lives". Interview with Alessandro Miglio, bleacherreport.com. January 30, 2015.

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• It's a basic, elemental universe, one of the last remaining zones where violence and domination sort out who is top dog. That's football's glory, and its curse. The game of football doesn't transfer well to the real world. You can't treat your friends, neighbors, or loved ones the way you treat your opponent on the football field.

  Tiki Barber

  Football, Dog, Real

  Tiki Barber, Gil Reavill (2008). “Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• My ideas are a curse.
  They spring from a radical discontent
  with the awful order of things.
  I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse.
  I play witch.

  Anne Sexton

  Inspirational, Spring, Order

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Coleridge received the Person from Porlock
  And ever after called him a curse,
  Then why did he hurry to let him in?
  He could have hid in the house.

  Stevie Smith

  Poetry, House, Ever After

  Stevie Smith (1988). “New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Time, Wall, Revenge

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• The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received.

  Richard Jordan

  Love, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the receiver; it produces the truest gratitude. Perhaps it is only essential to friendship that some vital trust should have been reposed by the one in the other. I feel addressed and probed even to the remotest parts of my being when one nobly shows, even in trivial things, an implicit faith in me.... A threat or a curse may be forgotten, but this mild trust translates me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Trust, Gratitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.49, Jazzybee Verlag

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• As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Race, Effort, Common

  Abraham Lincoln, H. C. Whitney, United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) (1907). “Speeches and debates, 1856-1858”

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• For who shall defile the temples of the ancient gods, a cruel and violent death shall be his fate, and never shall his soul find rest unto eternity. Such is the curse of Amon-Ra, king of all the gods.

  Griffin Jay

  Kings, Fate, Soul

  "Fictional character: The High Priest". "The Mummy's Hand", www.imdb.com. 1940.

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• With this pen I take in hand my selves
  and with these dead disciples I will grapple.
  Though rain curses the window
  let the poem be made.

  Anne Sexton

  Rain, Self, Hands

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• What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Knowledge, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.116, Penguin

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• There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty! Tomas! And now me! What are the Irish among men? Are we lepers? Are we a blight? Will there ever be an end to our tears?

  Leon Uris

  Men, Names, Tears

  Leon Uris (1977). “Trinity”

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• Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. I don't want anything else in life. But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have never known. Now that I have seen them, and now that I see how immense my possibilities are, I'm going to feel worse than I did before you arrived. Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.

  Paulo Coelho

  Blessing, Alchemist, Horizon

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• The worst curse in life is unlimited potential.

  Ken Brett

  Unlimited Potential, Life Is, Worst

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• Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.

  Zhuangzi

  Cherish

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