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• For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.

  Carmen Electra

  Focus, Criticism, Praise

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• Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became like the class clown. I became the one who was kicked around.

  Britt Ekland

  Class, Ears, Clown

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• People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read.

  Rick Barry

  People, Opinion, Form

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• There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true.

  Tracey Emin

  Letters, Mail, Stuff

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• It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who have taken up a prejudice against you, either from envy or from any other cause.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Taken, Humility, Envy

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• Nothing goes on forever. I think that's one of the illusions of life. When I talk about my life being an extension of my dreams and fantasies, there's a tendency to think of them as immature. I live in a mature world. The majority of the people in this society live with delusions and illusions much more irrational and hurtful than mine. They deal with mortality, with fantasies relating to heaven and hell, and they don't really deal with their problems at all.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Thinking, People

  "Media: Rabbit is Rich". Interview with Jonathan Roberts, www.interviewmagazine.com. December, 1985.

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• For me, each of SNSD members is like my own body. If one gets hurts or hears bad things from someone else, it hurts me and pains me even more. And you know, it's impossible for only good things to happen to someone, so there will always be difficult and hurtful times; but during these times, I'm thankful that we're each other's supports and each other's strength. I hope in the future, we'll continue to lean on each other and be strong for each other. Also, when we need encouragement, we'll continue to look for each other too.

  Sunny

  Encouragement, Strong, Hurt

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• Water from clay pipes is much more wholesome than that which is conducted through lead pipes, because lead is found to be harmful for the reason that white lead is derived from it, and this is said to be hurtful to the human system.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  White, Water, Clay

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VIII, Chapter VI, Section 10), circa 15 BC.

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• By all means give vent to your anger, let it out in nondestructive ways--if you are still deciding to have it. But begin to think of yourself as someone who can learn to think new thoughts when you are frustrated, so that the immobilizing anger can be replaced by more fulfilling emotions. Annoyance, irritation, and disappointment are feelings that you will very likely continue to experience, since the world will never be the way you want it. But anger, that hurtful emotional response to obstacles, can be eliminated.

  Wayne Dyer

  Disappointment, Anger, Mean

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• Recently it was pointed out to me - in a kind of hurtful way, to be honest - that people in Los Angeles are aurally challenged. That is, at social events, we simply do not listen to others. We do not ask them questions about themselves, we do not nod attentively when they speak; really, if we were to examine ourselves, we would realize that we simply have no interest in others at all.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  People, Way, Events

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• Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.

  Rumer Godden

  People, Three, Seven

  Rumer Godden (2011). “The Greengage Summer”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional rule; for the soul rules the body with a despotical rule, whereas the intellect rules the appetites with a constitutional and royal rule. And it is clear that the rule of the soul over the body, and of the mind and the rational element over the passionate, is natural and expedient; whereas the equality of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful.

  Aristotle

  Two, Evil, Soul

  Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• Being satisfied, from observation and experience, as well as from medical testimony, that ardent spirit as a drink is not only needless but hurtful; and that the entire disuse of it would tend to promote the health, the virtue, and the happiness of the community, we hereby express our convention that should the citizens of the United States, and especially ALL YOUNG MEN, discontinue entirely the use of it, they would not only promote their own personal benefit, but the good of our country and the world.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Men, Community

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• An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Enemy, Wish

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.74

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• ... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.

  Fannie Barrier Williams

  Class, Racism, Evil

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• Superficial knowledge ... is hurtful to those who possess true genius; for it necessarily draws them away from their main object, wastes their industry over details and subjects foreign to their needs and natural talent, and lastly does not serve, as they flatter themselves, to prove the breadth of their mind. In all ages there have been men of very moderate intelligence who knew much, and so on the contrary, men of the highest intelligence who knew very little. Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Ignorance, Men, Superficial Knowledge

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

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• I feel especially vulnerable when I know I've let the reactive ego take control of my actions and it may have had hurtful implications with someone I love. I feel vulnerable when I don't listen to my conscience.

  Richard Brancatisano

  Ego, May, Action

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful. I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.

  Russell Simmons

  Animal, Thinking, Trying

  "Russell Simmons Interview With ORIGIN Magazine: How To Make Positive Changes (PHOTOS)". Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2013.

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• Be a teacher. If someone is acting hurtful toward you, chances are high that they're doing the same to others. By speaking up and taking action, you are helping others who might be hurt from this person unless they are reigned in.

  Doreen Virtue

  Teacher, Hurt, Helping Others

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• I have a skill set that often helps me get through hurtful moments or experiences. However, sometimes when the pain cuts really deep, my normal go-to exercises just won't work.

  Nikki DeLoach

  Pain, Cutting, Exercise

  "Interview with Nikki Deloach, actress in the hit show Awkward". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• For me, anything I do is totally up for conversation and it's not my right to be able to stop a person from writing whatever they want. What's harmful and hurtful is when people speculate.

  John Krasinski

  Writing, People, Want

  "John Krasinski Will Take a Photo with You, but Here's Where He Draws the Line". Interview with Mehera Bonner, www.marieclaire.com. August 24, 2016.

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• The people we're related to are the ones we go to for comfort, support. We connect with kin when the rest of the world seems hostile. Within our family, we are free to be ourselves, to have bad mood days, say hurtful stuff, get it off our chests. We know we'll always be forgiven.

  Randi Reisfeld

  Inspirational, People, Support

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• Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

  Peter Clewes

  Artist, Criticism, Negative

  "Architect Peter Clewes on the Château Laurier expansion". Interview with Shannon Proudfoot, www.macleans.ca. September 21, 2016.

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• If I'm not mistaken, that relationship [of Barack Obama] with Mr.[Bill] Ayers on this board continued after 9/11 and after his reported comments, which were deeply hurtful to people in New York and, I would hope, to every American, because they were published on 9/11, and he said that he was just sorry they hadn't done more.

  Hillary Clinton

  New York, Sorry, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The most hurtful thing to me is when people try to put assumptions on me and my relationship because that is not OK. Love is something that's really serious and private that you can't try to claim or know.

  Gigi Hadid

  Love Is, People, Trying

  Source: wwd.com

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