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• There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.

  Nell Zink

  Easier, Repetition, Terrible

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• Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

  Albert Einstein

  Society, Crime, Individual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.99, Broadway Books

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• The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because socialism is a mindset that regards the individual and his rights as insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire power.

  L. Neil Smith

  Philosophy, Believe, Rights

  "Cambodian Road Trip". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 15, 2009.

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• I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Work, People, Favors

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1972). “Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay”

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• Guilt's a terrible thing.

  Ben Jonson

  Guilt, Terrible

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir”, p.471

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• It's hard for me to talk about the terrible things that have happened in my lifetime because they didn't need to be.

  Tillie Olsen

  Needs, Lifetime, Terrible

  Source: progressive.org

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• We had the great depression, we had two world wars, we had the flu epidemic. We had oil shock. We had all these terrible things happen. But something about the American system unleashed more and of a potential to human beings over that hundred years so that we had a seven for one improvement in - there's never been any - I mean, you have centuries where if you've got a 1 percent improvement, then it's something. So we've got a great system. And we've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  War, Mean, Epidemics

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• What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

  Moliere

  Men, Wicked, Aristocracy

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• William James once said: "Progress is a terrible thing." It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For who knowsbut that a little further on the way a bridge may not have collapsed or a crevice split the earth?

  Johan Huizinga

  Bridges, Progress, Earth

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• Philip Galanes has fashioned a novel both bleak and funny about a young man's struggle to sort out his troubled love: the too-strong love for his mother, the too-weak love for his suicidal father, and the all-consuming love of anonymous sexual encounters. Pointed and acute, this story tells of the narrator's many betrayals of others and their many betrayals of him. It exists in an uncomfortable moral space where the humor of terrible things sometimes outweighs, but never obscures, their poignancy.

  Andrew Solomon

  Mother, Strong, Betrayal

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• You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.

  Anderson Cooper

  Work, Community, Suffering

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• One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated... It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds...

  Patrick Pearse

  Powerful, Night, Law

  "The Cause Of Ireland" by Liz Curtis, Beyond the Pale Publications, Belfast, (p. 190), 1994.

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• That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.

  Paul McCartney

  Growing Up, Surprise, Inevitable

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• I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.

  Paul Engle

  Boys, Knives, Terrible

  Paul Engle (1996). “A Lucky American Childhood”, p.153, University of Iowa Press

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• The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse.

  Countee Cullen

  Lying, Loss, Love Is

  Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.107, Library of America

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• Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.

  Larry Kramer

  Stupid, People, Belief

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• Its a war zone. Terrible things happen.

  Eason Jordan

  War, Terrible, Happens

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• It is true Christians have done terrible things throughout history. But they've always been acting in opposition to their Christian faith. There are no New Testament verses that say, Kill unbelievers.

  Robert Jeffress

  Christian, Acting, Done

  "Witness in Texas pool party incident speaks out; Palin blasts media's Duggar double standard". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 8, 2015.

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• If I was to see any of my films now I would feel, oh god you know it's awful I could do that so much better now. Look at all the terrible things I did and all the mistakes and all the compromises and all the blunders I made, and it would be such a terrible experience for me to see them. So it's better that I put it out and move on to the next thing and make it history as quickly as possible.

  Woody Allen

  Mistake, Moving, Would Be

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you're headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you're going to head that way a while longer cause that's just the kind of person you are.

  John Darnielle

  Want, Way, Causes

  "Recover From the Damage: Reviewing John Darnielle's Debut Novel, Wolf in White Van" by Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.

  Oscar Wilde

  Husband, Thinking, Blow

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.205, OUP Oxford

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• I've never felt Truth was Beauty. Never. I've always felt that people can't take too much reality. I like being in Ingmar Bergman's world. Or in Louis Armstrong's world. Or in the world of the New York Knicks. Because it's not this world. You spend your whole life searching for a way out. You just get an overdose of reality, you know, and it's a terrible thing. I'm always fighting against reality.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Fighting, Reality

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• Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes.

  Chris Prentiss

  Thinking, Ideas, Disease

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.107, BookBaby

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• If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

  Sophocles

  Shine Bright, Light, Shining

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• The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Light, Boredom

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