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• Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief of some pressing uneasiness, or the attainment of some near advantage.

  Samuel Johnson

  Class, Curiosity, Desire

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.206

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• The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief.

  Pema Chodron

  Mean, Suffering, Noble

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from the White House. Once in the road, free from the fields and brakes, he changed his run into a walk, and he never paused or stopped, till he came with a gulp of relief into the ugly streets of the big industrial town. He made hi way to the station at once, and found that he was an hour too soon for the London express. So, there was plenty of time for breakfast; which consisted of brandy.

  Arthur Machen

  Running, Eye, Men

  Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.1290, Delphi Classics

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• The notion that most people want black-robed judges, well-dressed lawyers and fine-paneled courtrooms as the setting to resolve their disputes is not correct. People with problems, like people with pains, want relief, and they want it as quickly and inexpensively as possible.

  Warren E. Burger

  Pain, Judging, People

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• And though the meaning fits, there's no relief in this. I miss my beautiful friend.

  Jeff Buckley

  Beautiful, Missing, Fit

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• It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the fear changes into its opposite… The reversal of fear of being touched belongs to the nature of crowds. The feeling of relief is most striking where the density of the crowd is greatest

  Elias Canetti

  Men, Opposites, Feelings

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• Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal human being will ever be able to identify with Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Eichmann, and endless others. This dismays us, and at the same time gives us a sense of relief, because perhaps it is desirable that their words (and also, unfortunately, their deeds) cannot be comprehensible to us. They are non-human words and deeds, really counter-human.

  Primo Levi

  Giving, Holocaust, Deeds

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• So the floodgates open, but nothing comes out. I’m feeling no relief in my head, just doubt. But my heart keeps telling me, 'hold your ground. You’ll never learn a thing if you bail out now.

  Missy Higgins

  Heart, Feelings, Doubt

  Song: The Wrong Girl, Album: On a Clear Night, 2007

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• Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that's what foreclosure is.

  J. P. Morgan

  People, Giving, Needs

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• It is such a relief to be told the truth.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.980, Library of America

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• As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions. Although I understand many believe marijuana is the most effective drug in combating their medical ailments, I would caution against this assumption due to the lack of consistent, repeatable scientific data available to prove marijuana's benefits. Based on current evidence, I believe that marijuana is a dangerous drug and that there are less dangerous medicines offering the same relief from pain and other medical symptoms.

  Bill Frist

  Pain, Believe, Marijuana

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• Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Cities, Exit, Vortex

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• As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals
  to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress
  and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for
  pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.

  Aaron T. Beck

  Emotional, Perspective, Drug

  Aaron T. Beck, Fred D. Wright, Cory F. Newman, Bruce S. Liese (2011). “Cognitive Therapy of Substance Abuse”, p.47, Guilford Press

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• If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's an initial uprush of relief at first, then-for me, anyway- a profound dislocation. My old assumptions about how the world works are buried, yet my new ones aren't yet operational.There's been a death of sorts, but without a few days in hell, no resurrection is possible.

  Mary Karr

  Dark, Long, Profound

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• There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Criminals, Criminal Mind, Violence

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• The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Morning, Night, Men

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1910). “Manual of Gardening: A Practical Guide to the Making of Home Grounds and the Growing of Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables for Home Use”

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• It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them.

  Amy Carmichael

  Prayer, Soul, Christ

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• When I see the need for Divine teaching and how hungry people are to hear it, I am atremble to be off and running throughout the world, preaching the word of God. I have no rest, my soul finds no other relief, than to rush about and preach.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Running, Teaching, People

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• If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Weed, Marijuana, Smoking

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• I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep, wild draught on your lips.

  Warren G. Harding

  Hurt, Long, Lips

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• Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done - a kind of satisfaction not unlike that which a hen enjoys on laying an egg.

  H. L. Mencken

  Work, Men, Eggs

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.33, Knopf

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• Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.

  William Glasser

  Strong, Pain, Giving Up

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• When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Pain, Responsibility, Way

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.370, Transaction Publishers

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• The most profound benefit of yoga and meditation for me has been a natural relaxing into my life. Obstacles are not so scary. I am more fluid, more curious, and at the same time more patient. I have more options for happiness because I don't require specific conditions. It is a relief to discover that I can be happy even if the world doesn't revolve around me or my agenda.

  Cyndi Lee

  Yoga, Profound, Meditation

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• Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortu ne is not a mortgage on achievement-fai lure is not a mortgage on success-sufferi ng is not a claim check, and its relief is not the goal of existence-man is not a sacrificial animal on anyone’s altar nor for anyone’s cause-life is not one huge hospital.

  Ayn Rand

  Animal, Men, Goal

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