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• What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

  Horace

  Anger, Cutting, Punishment

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• It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

  Edmund Burke

  Errors, Liberty, Grumbling

  'Observations on...the Present State of the Nation' (1769)

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• Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.

  Simon Sinek

  Optimism, Complaining, Begets

  Twitter post from Jul 08, 2010

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• It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness.

  Confucius

  Gratitude, Light, Darkness

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• Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Sports, Lying

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• My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

  Billy Corgan

  Mom, Adults, Too Much

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• People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.

  Jerry Lewis

  Hate, People, Hatred

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• You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Presidential, Gentleman, Complaining

  Press conference, Los Angeles, Calif., 7 Nov. 1962

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• I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.

  Joe Walsh

  Happiness, Humorous, Complaining

  Song: Life's Been Good, Album: But Seriously, Folks...

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• I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.

  E. W. Howe

  Believe, Fighting, Grumbling

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• I have no complaints about my path and the places it has taken me; enough complaints to fill a circus tent about other things, maybe, but the path I've chosen has always been the right one, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Taken, Circus, Way

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

  Victor Gold

  Grease, Complaining, Wheels

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• There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have slept or if you have head ache or sciatica or leprosy or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace and not pollute the morning.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Attitude, Angel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.392

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• He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fate, Destiny, Complaining

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• Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

  Zig Ziglar

  Loyalty, Business, Educational

  "Smarter Branding Without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can Use Right Now to Build Your Business at Little Or No Cost". Book by Brenda Bence (p. 91), November 7, 2011.

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• There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Complaining, Leprosy, Topics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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• The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

  Zig Ziglar

  Business, Opportunity, Loyal Customers

  "Smarter Branding Without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can Use Right Now to Build Your Business at Little Or No Cost". Book by Brenda Bence (p. 91), November 7, 2011.

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• When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it; you will dry it away. Be always busy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Complaining, Fit

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.352

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• I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.

  Joan Collins

  Husband, Men, Wife

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

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• In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

  Samuel Johnson

  Patience, Evil, Might

  "The Rambler".

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• It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

  Dolly Parton

  Fashion, Looks, Cost

  Twitter post from Jul 14, 2011

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• People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

  Imelda Marcos

  Funny, Stupid, Garbage Disposal

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

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• Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

  Frank Sinatra

  Music, Rock And Roll, Rocks

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• I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

  Mick Jagger

  Stupid, Singing, Complaining

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

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• I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Writing, Diversity

  Audre Lorde (1997). “The Cancer Journals”

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