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• 'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Complaining, Red

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• Lord, it is my chief complaint, That my love is weak and faint; Yet I love thee and adore, Oh for grace to love thee more!

  William Cowper

  Love, Grace, Lord

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.660

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• I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.

  Alan Perlis

  Fun, Learning, Successful

  "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs". Textbook by Gerald Jay Sussman and Hal Abelson, 2nd edition, 1996.

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• The spirit of complaint is born out of an unwillingness to trust God with today.
  Like the Israelites, it means you are spending your time looking back toward Egypt or wishing for the future all the while missing what God is doing right now.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Mean, Egypt, Missing

  Priscilla Shirer (2010). “One in a Million: Journey to Your Promised Land”, p.115, B&H Publishing Group

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• A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: 'You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.'

  Anthony de Mello

  Distance, Frustrated, Stories

  Anthony De Mello (1999). “Anthony De Mello: Writings”

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• I thought I'd had another few decades before my noise complaint years.

  Sloane Crosley

  Years, Noise, Refreshing

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.58, Portobello Books

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• I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.

  Boy George

  Ideas, People, Complaining

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• Don't tell anyone. I'm supposed to be dumb.

  Helena Christensen

  Dumb, Complaining, Supposed To Be

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• I have eyes like those of a dead pig.

  Marlon Brando

  Eye, Pigs, Complaining

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

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• I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around like that?"

  Robin Williams

  Zoos, Complaining, Gone

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• Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that you have some sort of complaint that you were far happier not knowing about.

  John Mortimer

  Mistake, Knowing, Choices

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• The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights degraded into a generalized sense of entitlement, the demand for specific recognition into a generalized demand for attention and the anger at specific injustice into a generalized feeling of grievance and resentment. The result is a culture of entitlement, attention-seeking and complaint.

  Michael Foley

  Rights, Feelings, Culture

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.

  Alan Cohen

  Appreciation, Math, Quality

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• Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage.

  Charles Bukowski

  Cages, Restriction, Results

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• Thus even as servers die or are put to sleep, even as operating systems come and go, I can carry the work forward-despite all of the progress around me. [...] But really, no complaints-it's fun to wander around in the middle of so much waste and progress, and I'd rather be here than anywhere. You just have to keep working out how to travel light and stay portable.

  Paul Ford

  Fun, Sleep, Light

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• If Christ could make a complaint, it would be, "My bride never talks to me".

  R. C. Sproul

  Would Be, Christ, Talk To Me

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• Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Doctors, May, Fancy

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• The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves; the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Writing, May

  Samuel Johnson (2003). “Selected Essays”, p.525, Penguin UK

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• If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked at, investigated, drugged, charged, but not listened to.

  Oliver Sacks

  Science, Medicine, Physicians

  Oliver Sacks (2013). “Migraine”, p.309, Vintage

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• Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

  William Osler

  Hard Work, Dust, Aggravation

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.301, Duke University Press

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• The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. This is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big.

  Jim Rohn

  Apology, Maturity, Harvest Time

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 17, 2015

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• Complainers rule out happiness, mentioning it only as something lost.

  Mason Cooley

  Happiness, Lost, Complainers

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• How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal need. Political time moves at a snail's pace because it is only with nearly insurmountable difficulty that moral discomfort takes root in the best of people, forcing an imperative out of a complaint; so viscerally repugnant is it for a critical mass to find the prevailing system unbearable, much less prepare to take up arms against it.

  Vivian Gornick

  Moving, Roots, People

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• The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Acting, My Family, Time Away

  "Mark Wahlberg: 'I've been hustling my entire life'". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2013.

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• Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions.

  Mason Cooley

  Complaining, Pastime, Millions

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