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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.
Søren Kierkegaard
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When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the drug addict feels when indulging his or her habit. Temporary relief is soon followed by a craving for more. And in just the same way that taking drugs in the end only causes trouble, so, too, does much of what we undertake to fulfill our immediate sensory desires.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
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Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.
Margaret Thatcher
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'Tis not my speeches that you do mislike,
But 'tis my presence that doth trouble ye.
Rancor will out.
William Shakespeare
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Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.
Plato
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Mrs. Elvsted:
You have some hidden motive in this, Hedda!
Hedda:
Yes, I have. I want for once in my life to have power to mold a human destiny.
Mrs. Elvsted:
Have you not the power?
Hedda:
I have not—and never had it.
Mrs. Elvsted:
Not your husband's?
Hedda:
Do you think it's worth the trouble? Oh, if only you could understand how poor I am. And fate has made you so rich!
Henrik Ibsen
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There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.
Tacitus
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Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn.
Aristotle
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It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
Confucius
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There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.
Mark Twain
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The trouble is, when a fellow is by himself and starts thinking, the sad things are always stronger in his memory than the happy things.
Elvis Presley
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As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her.
Malcolm X
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Saruman," I said, standing away from him, "only one hand at a time can weild the One, and you know that well, so do not trouble to say we!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
Winston Churchill
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But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.
George Orwell
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There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; a delicacy of honour, which is sensitive to shame; over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.
Sun Tzu
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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Mark Twain
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All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.
Mark Twain
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I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world of torment as to hair-dressing, which at present gives me no trouble beyond washing and brushing, for my long hair is always plaited up out of sight, and my short hair curls well enough to want no papering.
Jane Austen
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But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo. Sam looked at him unhappily. 'It all depends on what you want,' put in Merry. 'You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin—to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours—closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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We do know that once again innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun.
Barack Obama
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There is no way but to meditate and ruminate well upon the effects of anger, — how it troubles man's life; and the best time to do this is to look back upon anger when the fit is thoroughly over.
Francis Bacon
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A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one.
Virginia Woolf
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Benjamin Franklin
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