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• Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their character.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Small Numbers, Order

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.129, OUP Oxford

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• You're in a bad mood,' Skulduggery said. 'I understand. I do. You're saying things that you don't really mean. It's OK.' 'I'll kill you both.' 'Hurtful things said in the heat of the moment. We're not going to hold it against you, Bison. We're all friends here.' Valkyrie nodded. 'We love you Bison.' 'We do,' Skulduggery agreed. 'You're our favourite Necromancer. You're the cuddly one.' 'Shut up,' Dragonclaw said. 'Both of you just shut up.

  Derek Landy

  Love You, Mean, Bad Mood

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• Ready?" Jaime echoed. "Yes, yes, I am ready. I am ready to drink a lot of liquids and lie on the sofa moaning faintly all day long. That is what I am ready for. I cannot engage in physical activity of any sort or my head will fall right off. Is that what you want Nick? Because if so, I find that hurtful.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Lying, Fall, Long

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• The next day, when I was sober, I thought again about the three of us, and about time's many paradoxes. For instance: that when we are young and sensitive, we are also at our most hurtful; whereas when the blood begins to slow, when we feel less sharply, when we are more armoured and have learnt how to bear hurt, we tread more carefully.

  Julian Barnes

  Hurt, Blood, Next Day

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• Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.

  Stephen King

  Heart, Mind, Useless

  Stephen King, Darrel Anderson (2005). “The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah”, Scribner Book Company

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• Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Action, Vicious, Forbidden

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.137, Applewood Books

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• The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.

  Alain de Botton

  Glasses, Understanding, Wipe

  Alain De Botton (1997). “How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel”, Pantheon

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• Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies

  Lisa Vanderpump

  Friendship, Silence, Enemy

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• As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Teacher, Kids, Parent

  "Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• For somebody to take a shot at him is totally disappointing and hurtful to my family, my mother, his wife and child. For Dianne to say we turned our back on her or nobody helped her. I paid Randy's bonus in '04. I paid him six months in '05. She got a BMW. I paid her insurance. When you attack my family personally when we've done everything we can, I was very disappointed in Diane and I thought it was uncalled for and inaccurate.

  Rick Hendrick

  Mother, Hurt, Children

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• To place any dependence upon Militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff ... If I was called upon to declare upon Oath , whether the Militia have been most serviceable or hurtful upon the whole; I should subscribe to the latter.

  George Washington

  Broken, Staff, Should

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• Study the hurtful patterns of your life.
  Then don't repeat them.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Patterns, Study, Repeats

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• There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.

  Carol Vorderman

  Brother, Father, Years

  "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'

  Mae Whitman

  School, People, My Best Friend

  "Mae Whitman Interview PARENTHOOD and SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 12, 2010.

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• Forgiveness is not the misguided act of condoning irresponsible, hurtful behavior. Nor is it a superficial turning of the other cheek that leaves us feeling victimized and martyred. Rather, it is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Divorce, Past, Feelings

  "Fire in the Soul: A New Psychology of Spiritual Optimism". Book by Joan Z. Borysenko, 1993.

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• I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly assistant, who, in his patient's body, furthers those motions and other things, that he judges conducive to the welfare and recovery of it; but as to those, that he perceives likely to be hurtful, either by increasing the disease, or otherwise endangering the patient, he thinks it is his part to oppose or hinder, though nature do manifestly enough seem to endeavour the exercising or carrying on those hurtful motions.

  Robert Boyle

  Recovery, Exercise, Science

  Robert Boyle, Edward B. Davis, Michael Hunter (1996). “Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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• Here was a period where I was particularly attacked, and in untrue ways, some people online said some things that were not true about me - but it was very hurtful. And there was like, a period of time that it was very panicky, I was very upset. And my son at the time was, I guess seven, eight months old, and I would wake up early with him and let my wife sleep.

  David Plotz

  Sleep, Son, Up Early

  Source: www.slate.com

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• A man I admire and respect - Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with the worst chapter in American history, segregation, deaths of children in church bombings, George Wallace. That, to me, was so hurtful.

  John McCain

  Children, Hero, Men

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• Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.

  Max Muller

  Deeds, Easy, Difficult

  F. Max Muller (2000). “Wisdom of the Buddha: The Unabridged Dhammapada”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been empty too long.

  Lynn Caine

  Mean, Long, Widows

  Lynn Caine (1974). “Widow”

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• The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.

  William Hazlitt

  Breathing, Cities, Space

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.524

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• People like to lay their whole life, and all of their own secrets out in front of the world. They make money off of it, and find satisfaction that way. I personally don't believe in that. I think it can be hurtful to yourself and those around you.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It's hurtful to know that Tommy Glavine won't be in a Braves uniform anymore.

  John Schuerholz

  Brave, Uniforms, Knows

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• It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. And we're in a place now where we all need one another, and it's going to get rougher.

  Prince

  Add, Needs, World

  "Tribute to Prince, Part 2". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. April 25, 2016.

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• They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil.

  Paul the Apostle

  Fall, Men, Roots

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