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• Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Heal, Healer

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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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• 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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• 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 And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.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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• 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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• A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

  Edna Ferber

  Beautiful, Men, Tree

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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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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• 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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• Canadians are so easily wounded.

  Tucker Carlson

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• When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Thank You, Cutting, Army

  Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "The Young British Soldier"

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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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• 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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• But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips.

  Khalil Gibran

  Running, Spiritual, Song

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• She stood looking carefully at the labeled portraits Ursala had put up: Little Crow, Chief of the Santees, Geronimo, last of the Apaches, and Ursala's favorite, Big Foot, dying in the snow at Wounded Knee. "Isn't that where the massacre was?" asked Ellen. "Yes. I'm going to go there when I'm grown up. To Wounded Knee." "That seems sensible," said Ellen.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Feet, Snow, Crow

  Eva Ibbotson (2008). “A Song for Summer”, p.22, Pan Macmillan

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• Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever young. Now, at an age when the wounds begin to heal whether one wants them to or not, Joan Baez rarely leaves the Carmel Valley.

  Joan Didion

  Girl, Pain, Age

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.42, Zola Books

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• under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Grief, Men, Anxiety

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• I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could imagine.

  Libba Bray

  Powerful, Moments, Imagine

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?' MR. CELINE: 'I am merely offering a way out for your client. Any private individual with a record of such incessant murder and robbery would be glad to cop an insanity plea. Do you insist that your client was in full possession of its reason at Wounded Knee? At Hiroshima? At Dresden?' JUSTICE IMMHOTEP: 'You become facetious, Mr. Celine.' MR. CELINE: 'I have never been more serious.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Offering, Government, Justice

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• They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in the sun. What do you want to do? said the kid. Get a drink of water. Other than that. I dont know. You want to try and head back? To Texas? I don't know where else. We'd never make it. Well you say. I aint got no say. He was coughing again. He held his chest with his good hand and sat as if he'd get his breath. What have you got, a cold? I got consumption. Consumption? He nodded. I come out here for my health.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Kids, Texas, Hands

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.61, Vintage

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pride, Vanity, Hardest

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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