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• Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Brutality, Violence

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• The Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught us: 'That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by word or deed, but who works for the benefit and happiness of God's creatures. Belief in God is to love one's fellow men.'

  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

  Peace, Men, Ubuntu

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• Sure, losing an election hurts, but I've experienced worse. And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might have been is self-defeating. In conceding the 1996 election, I remarked that "tomorrow will be the first time in my life I don't have anything to do." I was wrong. Seventy-two hours after conceding the election, I was swapping wisecracks with David Letterman on his late-night show.

  Bob Dole

  Night, Self, Two

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• It's a no win situation. It's a mug's game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.

  Daniel Dennett

  Winning, Opportunity, Games

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• I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Single, Hate, Winning

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• To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

  John C. Maxwell

  Single, Moving, Past

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.78, Harper Collins

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• I know what it feels like to be hurt,and I don't want to cause that pain to any other person or creature. But somehow, in society, we numb ourselves in order to make money or to feel better about ourselves, such as with cosmetics or food. We say to ourselves, I'm going to use this animal. I'm going to say it doesn't have much worth so that I can allow myself to do these cruel things. And that just isn't fair.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Pain, Feel Better, Animal

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• My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

  Olive Schreiner

  Sad, Kindness, Feelings

  Olive Schreiner (1988). “Olive Schreiner Letters: 1871-1899”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.

  Tyler Perry

  Forgiveness, Walking Forward, Forgiving

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• Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

  Klaus Kinski

  Broken Heart, Running, Thinking

  "Klaus Kinski & The Thing" by Marcelle Clements. Playboy, Vol. 32, Iss. 11, November 1985.

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• The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Motivational, Broken Heart

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• Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us.

  Susan Jeffers

  Broken Heart, Breakup, Rejection

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• Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. With Wrigley chewing gum, it's the lack of change that appeals to me. I don't think it is going to be hurt by the Internet. That's the kind of business I like.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Thinking, Investing Money

  "Warren Buffett's 23 Most Brilliant Insights About Investing" by Sam Ro, www.businessinsider.com. August 31, 2014.

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• I don't count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. That is when I start counting, because then it really counts. That's what makes you a champion.

  Muhammad Ali

  Life, Powerful, Champion

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• I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Success, Business

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.358, Library of America

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• Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Memorial Day, Courage, Humble

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• Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.

  John Philip Sousa

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.

  Katherine Dunham

  Dance, Knows, Ifs

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• Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do-or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Pain, Anger, Grandma

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• Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Positive, Life And Love

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• A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Teacher, Diversity

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• Infidelity flows from a belief that women have the power to make you feel like
  a man if you only find a woman that thinks you're perfect; if you can only
  find a woman that you haven't hurt or disappointed yet.

  Frank Pittman

  Marriage, Men, Thinking

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• Politicians and corporations have always placed economic interests above moral interests. This is now hurting the entire planet.

  Marianne Thieme

  Politics, Corporations, Moral

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• Common courtesy plays a big role in happy marriages. People who are permanently married are polite to one another. They don't want to hurt one another's feelings, and they don't try to make the other one feel humiliated. People who are married for life are extremely kind to one another.

  Frank Pittman

  Relationship, Play, People

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• People who love themselves, don't hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.

  Daniel Pearce

  Bullying, Hate, Self Esteem

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