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• Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Motivational, Wall, Soldier

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.191, Modern Library

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• There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Knowledge, Heart, World

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• I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.

  James Crumley

  Sound, Warfare, Modern Life

  FaceBook post by James Crumley from Mar 18, 2016

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• I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate. But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.

  Richard Wright

  Hurt, Hate, Feelings

  Richard Wright (1998). “Black Boy”, Turtleback

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• Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

  Thomas Moore

  Life, Sympathy, Healing

  Thomas Moore (1840). “The Works: Accurately Printed from the Last Original Editions with Critical Notes and a Sketch of His Life”, p.194

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• Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

  Robert Carlyle

  Art, Acting, Magnet

  "Taking it seriously". Interview with Libby Brooks, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2000.

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• With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.

  Buffalo Bill

  Father, Home, Leaving

  Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

  Tyne Daly

  Inspirational, Battle, Shooting

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

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• So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of what a city might at its best prove to be – its inhabitants became, and have remained, an embittered and amnesiac race, wounded but unable to connect through memory to the moment of injury, unable to summon the face of their violator.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Dream, Memories, Loss

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.179, Penguin

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• Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.

  Annie Proulx

  Silence, Unfolding, Comfortable

  Annie Proulx (1994). “The Shipping News”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sweet, Pain, Heart

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1980). “The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King”

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• Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?

  Amy Tan

  Hate, Results

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.154, Penguin

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• Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Sorrow, May

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (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.151, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I'm not surprised at all. In some ways, it may be a good thing. They're defending the patriarchy, which is a wounded beast! And wounded beasts are always dangerous.

  Jane Fonda

  War, Equal Pay, People

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• It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Sick, Risk

  "Careerism and vanity: Sins of the Church". www.lastampa.it. February 24, 2012.

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• As someone who's spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda, I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.

  Al Franken

  Warrior, Men, Iraq

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• One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Military, War, Iraq

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• Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pride, Vanity, Hardest

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• Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.

  Henri Nouwen

  Artist, Broken, People

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• My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

  Laura Linney

  Intelligent, Casting, Groups

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• Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Strong, Home, Sick

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• I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.

  Hugh Laurie

  Hero, Character, House

  FaceBook post by Hugh Laurie from Jan 10, 2012

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• Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, 'Hi' to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.

  Al Franken

  Dog, Eye, People

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• It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was convinced it ws the cries of the badly wounded andf deeply afflicted which spun the universe on the great glass pole of it's axis.

  Stephen King

  Glasses, Axes, World

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