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• Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.

  Sting

  Voice, Voice Of Reason, Reason

  Song: History Will Teach Us Nothing

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• The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell, pride, malice, revenge, rage, horror, despair, continually devout them.

  John Wesley

  Dog, Pain, Revenge

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• A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse.

  John Gay

  Men, Sheep, May

  John Gay (1854). “The Fables of John Gay Illustrated”, p.64

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• Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.

  Edward Young

  Tyrants, Leisure, Atlas

  Edward Young (1821). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.25

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• I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the pleasurable satisfaction of our impulse towards energy, and giving to that energy hope of producing something worth its exercise.

  William Morris

  Art, Exercise, Giving

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.91, Cambridge University Press

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• Are you grown an atheist? Will you turn your body, Which is the goodly palace of the soul, To the soul's slaughter-house? Oh, the curse'  d devil, Which doth present us with all other sins Thrice-candied o'er.

  John Webster

  Atheist, House, Soul

  1612 The White Devil, act 5, sc.6.

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• See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.

  John Webster

  Children, Tears, Cold

  1612 The White Devil, act 1, sc.2.

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• The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.

  William Joyce

  People, Ruins, England

  Broadcast on Radio Bremen, August 2, 1940.

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• We ought to celebrate the positive glorious gifts of God, but the worth of God shines in a powerful way to the world when in the midst of suffering we still don't curse God but say "The Lord gave and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord."

  John Piper

  Powerful, Blessed, Names

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• I think you can get away with so much more offensiveness when you're operating behind a stuffed teddy bear or a cartoon or something that's not real, because it's forgiven. It's like having a little kid in a movie curse - it's funny because it's not natural.

  Mila Kunis

  Real, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with James Franco, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2012.

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• Nowhere in the Bible, Koran, or Torah does it say, "If you curse, then you're going to hell." But everywhere it says that if you kill, you're going to wherever they send you, depending on the religion.

  Russell Simmons

  Doe, Hell, Torah

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

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• I try to walk like Christ in my life. If I strike out, I don't curse, or throw my bat or hit things back in the dugout, I try to quietly just put my helmet back. I may be very upset but I try to control myself.

  Torii Hunter

  Control Myself, Upset, Trying

  "Los Angeles Angels outfielder Torii Hunter on how his faith helps him set a good example". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. June 2011.

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• I think probably winning these things [an Oscar] can be a bit of a curse depending on who you are and how you think. But I haven't been on a journey to get anywhere in particular, so that hasn't changed. And my criteria for choosing projects hasn't changed.

  Cate Blanchett

  Winning, Journey, Thinking

  "Notes On A Scandal - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• For 86 years I have served Jesus Christ and he has never abandoned me. How could I curse my blessed king and savior?

  Polycarp

  Jesus, Kings, Blessed

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• The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.

  Mark Hart

  Father, Heart, Sin

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• If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he is a bad tempered man he will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the other boat he will scream and shout and curse at the man to steer clear. If you can empty your own boat crossing the river of the world, no one will oppose you, no one will seek to harm you. Thus is the perfect man - his boat is empty.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Rivers, Perfect

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• James Allen says 'We curse the effect and nourish the cause.' The guy puts sand in his shoes and he can hardly walk and you ask why would you do that? Why would we wish for it to change, hope for it to change, but all the while resisting change?

  Jim Rohn

  Shoes, Guy, Wish

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• Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Hate, Hypocrite, Thinking

  Marcus Aurelius (1945). “Marcus Aurelius and His Times”

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• The whole of religion has been one uniform curse to the human race.

  Richard Carlile

  Race, Uniforms, Humans

  Richard Carlile, Olinthus Gregory (1821). “Observations on "Letters to a Friend on the Evidences, Doctrines, and Duties of the Christian Religion by Olinthus Gregory" L.L.D. of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich: In a Letter to the Rev. William Wait”, p.54

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• It isn't useful to curse the darkness; instead light your candle and let your light shine.

  Hafsat Abiola

  Light, Shining, Darkness

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• It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful happenings in the daily shame of events, and that it can hardly understand when individuals aim to destroy this infamy.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Humanity, Events, Forget

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• I'm my own toughest opponent. So I talk to myself. I curse at myself. I pump myself up. Whatever it takes to do. I don't really give a damn how it looks really because when I'm in the moment I need to be me.

  Victoria Azarenka

  Giving, Needs, Looks

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• Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.

  Anne Sexton

  Rain, Window, Made

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• At school, I was this tomboy kid who just loved to hang out with her friends and learn curse words, trying to fit in with the cool kids and defending all the kids who got picked on.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  School, Kids, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Do not be naive. AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, but we may not know who particularly did it.

  Wangari Maathai

  People, Evil, Black

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