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• Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie.

  Eugene Linden

  Lying, Self, Years

  Eugene Linden (2011). “The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Mee t”, p.231, Penguin

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• I think my work is optimistic - as much as it is pathetic and funny and sad and ridiculous, at the end of the day it's about the hope that something will go right, and the constant wishing for a world where things might start to make sense.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Optimistic, Thinking, Wish

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Desire, Directors, Artistic

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• Everything human is pathetic

  Mark Twain

  Humans

  Following the Equator ch. 10, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Fleeting, Way, Tricks

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• I walked out the wrong car door and started walking into the crowd, An interviewer said, 'Give your best horror scream,' and Stan did this great scream, and I was too much of a wimp to do one. It was pathetic!

  Robert Pattinson

  Doors, Careers, Giving

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• It was really starting to get pathetic, everyday they would come in looking for one thing or another. 'Zach, can you give me some acting tips?' 'Zach, will you let me blow you?' 'Can I have some cash?' That's when I made the call, that's when I decided seven was enough

  Zach Braff

  Blow, Giving, Everyday

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• Id rather be selling groundnuts in my village than play for a pathetic club like Chelsea FC

  Samuel Eto'o

  Play, Village, Clubs

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• It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we are - and we start to believe it ourselves. Then, bent over from the weight of the negativity, we start to wither on the outside.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Being Yourself, Believe, Negativity

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• In Burton's day they [soldiers] were itching to get into the fray. Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about the dangers of being killed. Oh my God, they are such wimps now! The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

  Rupert Everett

  War, Army, Thinking

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• I spent a lot of time waiting for things to happen to me, which is more or less as pathetic as it sounds.

  Sloane Crosley

  Waiting, Sound, Happens

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.65, Portobello Books

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• Trash? The only trash I see here are two little boys lost at sea and a pathetic excuse for a seaworthy vessel!

  Davy Jones

  Boys, Sea, Two

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• It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.

  Julian Clary

  Motivational, Revenge, Stills

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• I've been around so long that I might be in record books for being the longest, weirdest, most pathetic great player ever. Look t how precocious I am at 33.

  Vince Spadea

  Book, Player, Long

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• Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Headache, States

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• Michael Jackson's album was only called Bad because there wasn't enough room on the sleeve for Pathetic.

  Prince

  Albums, Rooms, Enough

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• I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.

  Elton John

  Alcohol, Drug, Trying

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• Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be seen So gradual the Grace A pensive Custom it becomes Enlarging Loneliness. Antiquest felt at Noon When August burning low Arise this spectral Canticle Repose to typify Remit as yet no Grace No Furrow on the Glow Yet a Druidic Difference Enhances Nature now.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Loneliness, Differences

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1346, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

  H. L. Mencken

  Horse, Jobs, Society

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.622, Vintage

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• What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

  Jorge Luis Borges

  World, Mortality, Form

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.243, New Directions Publishing

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• Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Style, Way, Should

  Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (2009). “Seven Nights”, p.114, New Directions Publishing

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• Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion would fail any introductory philosophy or religion course. Proudly he criticizes that whereof he knows nothing.

  Michael Ruse

  Religious, Atheist, Philosophy

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• Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity.

  Rocko

  Soul, Luck, Modern Life

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• Flowers... that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God only by them - when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Children, Flower, Clouds

  "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater". Book by Thomas de Quincey, 1821.

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• Emo is pathetic. It's a tired attempt at making bad music cool, all while rocking dumb haircuts and unisexual belts. Furthermore, adding the suffix '-core' to a description doesn't make it innovative. It makes you look like a tool with no imagination.

  Corey Taylor

  Emo, Tired, Imagination

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