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• And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze
  About a star of deathless and painless peace
  But no astronomer can find where it is.

  Ted Hughes

  Stars, Elephants, Forests

  1972 'Crow's Elephant Totem Song'.

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• When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

  Vincent Cassel

  Movies In General, Violence, Violence In Movies

  "It shows us the animal inside us". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2003.

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• We start... imitation of Christ with Holy Baptism, which symbolizes the Lord's Burial and Resurrection. Virtuous living and conduct in accord with the Gospel are its intermediate stage, and its perfection is victory through spiritual struggles against the passions, which procures painless, indestructible, heavenly life.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Spiritual, Struggle

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• It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and backed down the driveway in the crumpled old Ford. And riding to work, one of the youngest and healthiest passengers on the train, he sat with the look of a man condemned to a very slow, painless death. He felt middle-aged.

  Richard Yates

  Morning, Coffee, Night

  Richard Yates (2010). “Revolutionary Road”, p.68, Random House

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• This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Two, People, Fifty

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• The handover of power to [Dmitry] Medvedev was rather painless, everybody thought that the waves would calm automatically. By now, it's quite clear that [Vladimir] Putin doesn't want to relinquish the levers of power.

  Garry Kasparov

  Want, Levers, Calm

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibility for their costs, is to pass a law saying that somebody else must provide those goodies at their expense, while the politicians take credit for generosity and compassion.

  Thomas Sowell

  Responsibility, Compassion, Hands

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.93, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Being dead wasn't supposed to hurt. Where was the fairness in that? If I was dead, the least the universe could do was make it painless

  Kiersten White

  Hurt, Fairness, Ifs

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• One of the problems in the United States is the refusal on the part of our young people to remember or to want to remember, or to recognize the experiences of the past as being relevant, germane, important to the present and to the future. They simply don't want anything that's painful. They want to live in a painless society where everything is pleasant, and everything is joyful.

  John Hope Franklin

  Past, People, Important

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• Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sleep, School, Doctors

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.196

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• Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that will be just too bad for mankind. There will have to be some stretching and a bit of amputation—the same sort of stretching and amputations as have been going on ever since applied science really got going into its stride, only this time they will be a good deal more drastic than in the past. These far from painless operations will be directed by highly centralized totalitarian governments.

  Aldous Huxley

  Lying, Past, Government

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• There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Civilization, Judging, Neighbor

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4518, e-artnow

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• Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.

  John Paul Stevens

  Approval, Execution, Retribution

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• The sales tax is the best and most equitable tax. The gasoline tax, which is nothing but a sales tax, has proven painless, productive and punitive. Everything we buy should have its equal proportion of tax, outside of cheap food and cheap clothes.

  Will Rogers

  Clothes, Should Have, Gasoline

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• Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages like the ribosome, and the origin of molecular machines like the bacterial flagellum, and intelligent design will die a quick and painless death.

  William A. Dembski

  Intelligent, Origin Of Life, Giving

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• Even if abortion were made easy or painless for everyone, it wouldn't change the bottom-line problem that abortion kills children.

  Randy Alcorn

  Children, Abortion, Lines

  Randy Alcorn (2009). “Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments”, p.17, Multnomah

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• Even painless research is fascism, supremacism...

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Research, Peta

  "Washingtonian" Magazine, August 1986.

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• Laser technology has fulfilled our people's ancient dream of a blade so fine that the person it cuts remains standing and alive until he moves and cleaves. Until we move, none of us can be sure that we have not already been cut in half, or in many pieces, by a blade of light. It is safest to assume that our throats have already been slit, that the slightest alteration in our postures will cause the painless severance of our heads.

  Ben Lerner

  Dream, Moving, Cutting

  Ben Lerner (2016). “No Art: Poems”, p.114, Granta Books

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• Suppose I grant that pigs and dogs are self-aware to some degree, and do have thoughts about things in the future. That would provide some reason for thinking it intrinsically wrong to kill them - not absolutely wrong, but perhaps quite a serious wrong. Still, there are other animals - chickens maybe, or fish - who can feel pain but don't have any self-awareness or capacity for thinking about the future. For those animals, you haven't given me any reason why painless killing would be wrong, if other animals take their place and lead an equally good life.

  Peter Singer

  Dog, Pain, Good Life

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• It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I have observed that the people who are completely out of touch with nature are the most afraid of death.

  Temple Grandin

  Nature, Animal, People

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• Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable - so painless. It's what they've chosen.

  Lois Lowry

  Life Changing, Wish, Want

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's no such thing as a painless lesson. They just don't exist. Sacrifices are necessary. You can't gain anything without losing something first although if you can endure that pain and walk away from it, you'll find that you now have a heart strong enough to overcome any obstacle. Yeah, a heart made fullmetal.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Strong, Pain, Heart

  "Fictional character: Edward". "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood", 2009-2010.

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• (...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.

  James Joyce

  Hygiene, People, Voting

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.600, Delphi Classics

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• He leaned down until his lips brushed her ear. “I told you to stop flinching.” And then he bit her. A slow, painless nip but there were definitely teeth involved.

  Nalini Singh

  Teeth, Ears, Lips

  Nalini Singh (2008). “Mine to Possess”, p.49, Penguin

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• Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?

  John Green

  Letting Go, Ifs

  "Will Grayson, Will Grayson". Book by David Levithan, John Green, and Rodrigo Corral, April 6, 2010.

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