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• To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again?

  Kristin Hannah

  Love Is, Rest Of Your Life, Unbearable

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front”, p.191, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them

  Maurice Sendak

  Childhood, Scare, Adults

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

  Stephen King

  Redemption, Want, Brooks

  "The Shawshank Redemption". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Sandman, Release, Ends

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• Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

  Russell Baker

  Peace, War, History

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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• My aim is to understand love. I know how alive I felt when I was in love, and I know that everything I have now, however interesting it might seem, doesn't really excite me.
  But love is a terrible thing: I've seen my girlfriends suffer and I don't want the same thing to happen to me. [...] Although my aim is to understand love, and although I suffer to think of people to whom I gave my heart, I see that those who touched my heart failed to arouse my body, and that those who aroused my body failed to touch my heart.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Girlfriend, Heart

  "Eleven Minutes". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2003.

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• It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Leadership, Over You, Trying

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• The terrible thing about TERRORISM is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.

  Terry Waite

  Practice, Light, Trying

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• The terrible thing about free soloing difficult routes that are within one's capacity, is the chance that faced with ultimate danger and need for ultimate self-control, one's nerve might fail and cause an error. That's irony of it - that fear could short-circiut skill, that one would die as a direcy result of being afraid to die.

  Royal Robbins

  Errors, Climbing, Self

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• People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.

  Mother Teresa

  People, Wish, Saint

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• It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

  Tennessee Williams

  Dog, Loss, Terrible

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• I think enormous harm is done by religion - not just in the name of religion, but actually by religion. ... Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have done, but really because they believe that this is what God wants them to do, going all the way back to Abraham being willing to sacrifice Isaac because God told him to do that. Putting God ahead of humanity is a terrible thing.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Believe, Sacrifice

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• Interest is a terrible thing to waste.

  Roger Schank

  Waste, Terrible, Interest

  Roger C. Schank, Ellen Langer (2013). “Beliefs, Reasoning, and Decision Making: Psycho-Logic in Honor of Bob Abelson”, p.6, Psychology Press

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• This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.

  Robert Hayden

  Beautiful, Men, Air

  Robert Hayden (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.62, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

  Andre Malraux

  Destiny, Life And Death, Terrible

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• Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten by wolves factor.' If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don't worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do.

  Randy Pausch

  Attitude, Optimistic, Thinking

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Crowds, Mental Health, Middle

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• I don’t know why terrible things happen to us sometimes.  But I have to believe that something good is going to come of this.

  Carrie Underwood

  Believe, Sometimes, Surfer

  "Fictional character: Sarah Hill". "Soul Surfer", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

  Klaus Kinski

  Beautiful, People, Terrible

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• People say I'm a nice girl saying terrible things. I tend to say the opposite of what I think. You hope that the absolute power of that transcends, and reaches the audience.

  Sarah Silverman

  Girl, Nice, Thinking

  "Quiet Depravity" by Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. October 24, 2005.

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• A terrible thing happened to me last night again—nothing.

  Phyllis Diller

  Sex, Night, Lasts

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• Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.

  Loni Anderson

  Marijuana, Smoking, Terrible

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• Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste.

  Alton Brown

  Believe, Waste, Terrible

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• My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Lying, Blood, Soul

  "Khrushchev: The Man and His Era". Book by William Taubman, 2002.

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• I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

  Andrew Fastow

  Regret, Done, Moral

  "I was very greedy, says Enron trial's star witness" by Richard Wray, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2006.

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