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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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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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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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As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her.
Malcolm X
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.
Margaret Thatcher
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The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.
William Shakespeare
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These wisdoms are for the luring of youth toward high moral altitudes. The author did not gather them from practice, but from observation. To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
Mark Twain
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He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.
Niccolò Machiavelli
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Under Socialism, you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you liked it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live, you would have to live well.
George Bernard Shaw
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A prince need trouble little about conspiracies when the people are well disposed, but when they are hostile and hold him in hatred, then he must fear everything and everybody.
Niccolò Machiavelli
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Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making trouble. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things.
George Bernard Shaw
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America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people, troubles will be coming from within and without. America cannot smile away their Negro problem nor Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are cosmic laws.
Albert Einstein
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Only in Christ can men and women find answers to the ultimate questions that trouble them. Only in Christ can they fully understand their dignity as persons created and loved by God.
Pope John Paul II
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Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
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Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.
Epictetus
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Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.
Henry David Thoreau
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What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
Bertolt Brecht
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