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• The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.

  E. O. Wilson

  Strong, Emotional, Broken

  "On Human Nature". Book by E. O. Wilson, 1978.

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• I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.

  Anita Shreve

  Hurt, Thinking, Stories

  Anita Shreve (2014). “The Weight Of Water”, p.130, Hachette UK

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• Why do I dance? Dance is my medicine. It’s the scream which eases for a while the terrible frustration common to all human beings who because of race, creed, or color, are ‘invisible’. Dance is the fist with which I fight the sickening ignorance of prejudice.

  Pearl Primus

  Dance, Ignorance, Fighting

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• I never thought that alcohol could ease the notion of the sadness, Now what used to be a happy home done turned into some bad sh!t

  Big Boi

  Home, Sadness, Alcohol

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• I release the past with ease and trust in the process of life.

  Louise Hay

  Past, Process, Release

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• Magazines and talk shows are filled with people who say that a successful #‎ marriage is hard and requires a lot of work. But to #‎ soulmates , their harmony often feels effortless, as though it is the most natural thing in the world to be completely at ease in a #‎ relationship .

  Rosemary Ellen Guiley

  Soulmate, Successful, People

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• Kindness eases change
  Love quiets fear

  Octavia Butler

  Kindness

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.55, Open Road Media

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• O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Heart, Sunset, Clouds

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.298

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• This disease of being “busy” (and let’s call it what it is, the dis-ease of being busy, when we are never at ease) is spiritually destructive to our health and wellbeing. It saps our ability to be fully present with those we love the most in our families, and keeps us from forming the kind of community that we all so desperately crave.

  Omid Safi

  Community, Sap, Kind

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• ....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Skills, Politics, Difficulty

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• If you are feeling tired or ill, rest. Your body will always want rest and ease if it's sick. When you become quiet, ask your body what you need to do in order to heal yourself. Your body may tell you to change certain habits, eat more wholesome food, express some feelings, quit your job, see a doctor, or it may have some other message for you, but there is always an answer available to you. The key is to ask and then listen honestly for a response.

  Shakti Gawain

  Jobs, Tired, Order

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• The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people.

  Jimmy Reid

  Exercise, Media, People

  "We don't want a gravy train for the well-connected few" by Jimmy Reid, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 1999.

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• People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  People, Looks, Conscience

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2015). “Stories and Prose Poems”, p.35, Macmillan

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• Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.

  Charles Lamb

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.763, Delphi Classics

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• Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Loneliness, Vision

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition”, p.54, Oscar Wilde

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• Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Play, Seems

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.133, GENERAL PRESS

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• The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Friends, Eye, Fate

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.566, Jazzybee Verlag

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• To me, it has always been difficult to understand those evangelical Christians who insist upon living in the crisis as if no crisis existed. They say they serve the Lord, but they divide their days so as to leave plenty of time to play and loaf and enjoy the pleasures of the world as well. They are at ease while the world burns.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Play, World

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• He has that uniqueness to respond to a tough situation with ease. He does not involve himself much emotionally, and that’s his quality. India are lucky to have a captain like Dhoni.

  V. V. S. Laxman

  Dhoni, Quality, India

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• Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!

  Petrarch

  Beautiful, Pain, Loss

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• This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Children, Men, Two

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.

  Paul Valery

  Order, Two, Police

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• The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Research, World

  "AS Byatt's The Children's Book". "The Book Show" with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. April 24, 2009.

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• It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

  Indira Gandhi

  Nature, People, Cynical

  Indira Gandhi (1992). “Safeguarding Environment”, p.21, New Age International

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• An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.

  John Keats

  Knowledge, Thinking, People

  John Keats, Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (1848). “Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats”, p.96

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