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• Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

  William Blake

  Sympathy, Peace, Grief

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'On Another's Sorrow'

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• Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Mean, Forever, Transition

  David Wojnarowicz (1994). “David Wojnarowicz: brush fires in the social landscape”

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• Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Death, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, the kind that women use in villages to pull water from wells; the clavicle curved around his neck in high relief, like a dog's collar; cuts and nicks and scars, like little whip marks in his flesh, ran down his chest and waist, reaching down below his hip bones into his buttocks. The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

  Aravind Adiga

  Dog, Father, Cutting

  FaceBook post by Aravind Adiga from Nov 30, 2013

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• I can personally feel the relief myself in my audiences when I bring up Obama because there was a lot of anti-Obama sentiment out there before the capture of bin Laden.

  Tommy Davidson

  Capture, Bin Laden, Feels

  "Comedy Post-Bin Laden" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. May 16, 2011.

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• The family is the world's greatest welfare agency, and the most successful. What the federal government has done in welfare is small and trifling compared to what the families of America do daily, caring for their own, relieving family distresses, providing medical care and education for one another, and so on. No civil government could begin to finance what the families underwrite daily. The family's welfare program, for all its failures from time to time, is proportionately the world's most successful operation by an incomparable margin.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Family, Successful, Caring

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• There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

  George Eliot

  Music, Grief, Men

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1224, Wordsworth Editions

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• Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

  Stephen King

  Tongue

  Stephen King (2009). “Nightmares & Dreamscapes”, p.722, Simon and Schuster

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• The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects.

  James Madison

  Mean, Causes, Inference

  James Madison, John Jay (1847). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.35

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• Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Torture

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• Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Book, Reading, Melancholy

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• The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.

  Auguste Rodin

  Children, Flower, Standing Out

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• Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Fiber, Moral

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• Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.

  Helen Rowland

  Husband, Hands, Giving

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.58, Lulu.com

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• Relief has its place. But what the people need is not relief, but release - release of their own potential for development.

  Y. C. James Yen

  People, Mind Your Own Business, Needs

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• The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.

  William Hazlitt

  Sometimes, Natural, Refinement

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1336, Delphi Classics

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• There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.

  Emil Zatopek

  Motivational, Workout, Race

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• The deepest need that you and I have in weakness and adversity is not quick relief, but the well-grounded confidence that what is happening to us is part of the greatest purpose of God in the universe - the glorification of the grace and power of his Son - the grace and power that bore Him to the cross and kept him there until the work of love was done.

  John Piper

  Adversity, Son, Grace

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• I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative.

  Vikram Chandra

  Writing, Fiction, Narrative

  Vikram Chandra (2013). “Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software”, p.22, Faber & Faber

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• I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've sought there is instruction, variation from the demands of film and relief from its restrictions.

  John Towner Williams

  Frustrated, Variation, Done

  "The force is with him". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2002.

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• I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax

  Larry King

  Relax, Messages, Comic

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• The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.

  John Moody

  Relationship, Country, Expansion

  John Moody (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Men, Rich

  'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 1, ch. 5, sect. 11

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• The lowest strata are reproducing too fast. Therefore... they must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the removal of the last check on natural selection should make it too easy for children to be produced or to survive; long unemployment should be a ground for sterilisation.

  Julian Huxley

  Children, Long, Unemployment

  Julian Huxley (1944). “Man in the Modern World”

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• When you're weary, find relief. When you're strong, find delight.

  Martha Beck

  Strong, Delight, Weary

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