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• The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries-all cumulate to impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind.

  Herbert Hoover

  Christian, School, Sunday

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge.

  Irving Stone

  World, Worth Fighting For, Ends

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• Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Atheism, Doctrine, Asceticism

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• The worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do more for himself and his kind than Christ and the followers of Christ have ever done for humanity; certainly more than meek patience, ignorance, and submission have done.

  Emma Goldman

  Ignorance, Humanity, Atheism

  Emma Goldman (1913). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race. Confucius cares not for the poverty, squalor and misery of the people of China. Buddha remains undisturbed in his philosophical indifference to the famine and starvation of outraged Hindoos; Jahve continues deaf to the bitter cry of Israel; while Jesus refuses to rise from the dead against his Christians who are butchering each other.

  Emma Goldman

  Christian, Jesus, Philosophical

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at life.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Pain, Suffering, Way

  "Ravi Zacharias: Christian apologist proclaims a reasonable faith". Interview with Anthony C. Hayes, baltimorepostexaminer.com. May 24, 2015.

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• The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are already powerful and keeping everyone else back is a recipe for endless misery and conflict.

  Robert Wyatt

  Powerful, Building Up, Ideas

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 14, 2014.

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• If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ifs

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• I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le.

  Winston Churchill

  Matter, Nine, Doctrine

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• Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

  Joseph Addison

  Marriage, Scene

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.169

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• Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of the fact that the wrongs we have done or imagined will never be punished or known--we nonetheless feel that the clutch in the stomach, that chill upon the soul, that self-inflicted misery called guilt.

  Judith Viorst

  Self, Soul, Guilt

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhance the true dignity of a prosperous American, do but minister to the added wretchedness of the unfortunate; first, by prohibiting their acceptance of what little random relief charity may offer; and, second, by furnishing them with the keenest appreciation of the smarting distinction between their ideal of universal equality and their grind-stone experience of the practical misery and infamy of poverty.

  Herman Melville

  Appreciation, Acceptance, Political

  Herman Melville (2012). “The Encantadas and Other Stories”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Happy were we all born philosophers; all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all mankind.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Philosophy, Care, Add

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “Enquiry into the present state of polite learning. The citizen of the world”, p.234

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• Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas.

  Mason Cooley

  Ideas, Arise, Begging

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• Love Songs Now: Fewer broken hearts, more sexual misery.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Song, Heart

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• The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sadness, Reflecting Upon, Ruins

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• There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Ends, Mischief

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• What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Long, Joy

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Heart, Eye, Feelings

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• If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.

  Edward Gibbon

  Humanity, Sorrow, Cottages

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.24

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• If the religious spirit be ever mentioned in any historical narration, we are sure to meet afterwards with a detail of the miseries which attend it. And no period of time can be happier or more prosperous, than those in which it is never regarded or heard of.

  David Hume

  Religious, Historical, Religion

  David Hume, John Charles Addison Gaskin (1998). “Dialogues and Natural History of Religion”, p.122, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper.

  F.B. Meyer

  Profound, Sin, Christ

  F.B. Meyer (1953). “Fifteen Key Studies from the Heart of Ephesians: A Topical Commentary by One of the Great Bibles Scholars of Our Age”, p.29, BookBaby

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• Pride is a deeply rooted ailment of the soul. The penalty is misery; the remedy lies in the sincere, life-long cultivation of humility, which means true self-evaluation and a proper perspective toward past, present and future.

  Robert Gordis

  Lying, Mean, Humility

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  There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

  Karl Marx

  Rotten, Wealth, Social

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1980). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels Collected Works 1858-60”, Intl Pub

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• Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to what may succeed, certainly are more liable to disappointment, misfortune and unhappiness, than those who give up their fate to chance and take the goods and evils of fortune as they come, without making happiness their study, or misery their foresight.

  Fanny Burney

  Happiness, Disappointment, Giving Up

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3747, Delphi Classics

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