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• The suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with their memories. And the rest of us will always remember where we were when we heard that London had been hit by the worst terrorist attack in its history.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Suicide, Memories, July

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• Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.

  J. C. Macaulay

  Single, Heart, Positive Attitude

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• We don't get wounded alone and we don't heal alone.

  Carl Jung

  Heal

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• A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim.

  Emily Dickinson

  Hurt, Spring, Rocks

  Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

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• I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded. It was long after that I learned that a vast majority of all benevolent institutions are gotten up to gratify the aesthetic tastes of the public; exhibit the wealth and generosity of the founders, and furnish places for officers. The beneficiaries of the institutions are simply an apology for their existence, and having furnished that apology, the less said about them the better.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Stupid, Apology, Sick

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• Most people don't get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says 'you can't say that' or 'you shouldn't say that' or 'that wasn't appropriate' so most of us human beings have a very deep underlying conditioning that says that just to be who we are is not OK.......Most human beings have an imprinting that if they're real, if they're honest, somebody's not gonna like it. And they won't be able to control their environment if they tell the truth.

  Adyashanti

  Real, People, Childhood

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• I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.

  Garry Trudeau

  War, Kids, Thinking

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• I was hit many times in various parts of the body, including my right leg, and thank God I am recovering. I was also severely wounded in my left leg. Iraqi and French doctors will conduct an operation shortly and, God willing, I will recover.

  Uday Hussein

  Doctors, Thank God, Body

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• One of the great things about being commander in chief is getting to know our men and women in uniform in a very intimate way, whether it's visiting Walter Reed and seeing our wounded soldiers, or being on a base and talking to families, or interacting with them on missions. They're the best of the best: always thinking about the mission, not thinking about credit, not thinking about who's up front.

  Barack Obama

  Men, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow, gathering flock-wiseRound their victim, sick and wounded, First a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dark, Air, Sick

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Song Of Hiawatha Xix: The Ghosts”

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• If you have a wounded heart, touch it as little as you would an injured eye. There are only two remedies for the suffering of the soul: hope and patience.

  Pythagoras

  Heart, Eye, Two

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• I do a lot of stuff with Wounded Warriors and the Armed Forces Foundation; if you want to get these guys to stop talking, start complimenting!

  Brian Kilmeade

  Warrior, Talking, Guy

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• Love is the weapon for this wounded generation.

  Christofer Drew

  Love Is, Generations, Weapons

  Twitter post from Nov 09, 2014

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• A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured.
  [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Difficulty, Wounded Heart

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• A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying an opinion, to a man's tongue, make him the representative of that opinion; and at the close of any battle for principles, his name will be found neither among the dead nor among the wounded, but among the missing.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Men, Names, Missing

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• Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices, it is of both genders; yet, because wounded vanity and slighted love are the two most powerful excitements to revenge, it has been thought, perhaps, to rage with more violence in the female heart.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sex, Powerful, Revenge

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.107

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• Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

  Honore de Balzac

  Grief, Heart, Giving

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• He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Sports, Missing, May

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• The U.S. has more guns per capita and supplies more guns to the world than any other country. What would be a fistfight without guns turns into dead bodies with them. Families with guns in the house are more likely to shoot themselves accidentally than to shoot any intruder. Women abused by their partners have a five-fold increased risk of being killed when their partner owns a gun. Every three hours, at least one child is wounded or killed by gunfire.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Children, Gun

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• The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous.
  [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum:
  Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]

  Ovid

  Fear, Shadow, Alarms

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• The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing.
  [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba
  Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

  Ovid

  Fear, Wings, Movement

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• Have consideration for wounded feelings.

  Ovid

  Feelings, Consideration

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• The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.

  Phillips Brooks

  Believe, Men, Knowing

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• Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Hurt, Pride, Vanity

  Helen Hunt Jackson (2010). “Ramona”, p.150, Modern Library

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• Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

  Margaret Mead

  Flesh, Stuff, Injustice

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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