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• Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

  Horatio Nelson

  Pain, War, Sea

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• I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Sad, Art, Pain

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• God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.

  Henri Nouwen

  Moments, Joyful, Easy

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• Filming 'The Road to Riches' was surprisingly difficult for me. I learned that going back to career successes and failures can be emotionally exhausting as you are forced to revisit the euphoric highs and painful lows in high speed.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Careers, Riches, Speed

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• One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.

  Merlin Olsen

  Funny, Pain, Nfl

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

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• The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

  Al Pacino

  Athlete, Emotional, Suffering

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• Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

  John Dos Passos

  Change, Break Up, Being Alone

  John Dos Passos (2010). “The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed”, p.443, Transaction Publishers

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• The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.

  Danica Patrick

  School, Class, Lasts

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• Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

  Ross Perot

  Pain, Failure, Knees

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• Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

  Alexander Pope

  Pain, Virtue, Endeavour

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To a Lady' (1735) l. 163

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• If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Speaks Out, People, Choices

  "Cartoon conflicts" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2006.

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• It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

  Adrienne Rich

  Inspirational, Time, Pain

  1971 Talk delivered to Forum on'TheWomanWriter in the Twentieth Century'. Collected as'WhenWe Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision', in College English, Oct1972.

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• It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.

  Joe Rogan

  Funny, Pain, Guy

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• It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Moving On

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

  Salman Rushdie

  Pain, Thinking, Action

  Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.497, Random House

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• There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

  John Ruskin

  Pain, Vulgarity Is, May

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.59, University of Virginia Press

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• In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the sitting would end, but that right in the moment of seeing that knee pain, we're able to explore the teachings of the Buddha. What does it mean to have a painful experience? What does it mean to hate it, and to fear it?

  Sharon Salzberg

  Pain, Hate, Teaching

  "The Buddha’s Five Protections - Part 1" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2010.

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• Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Depression, Pain, World Suffering

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• I've been around the world and I've had bras made in different places, and each time I'm experiencing the same troubles: the painful shoulders, the underwire cutting into my flesh.

  Jill Scott

  Cutting, Different, World

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• Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Emotional, Painful Experiences

  Maurice Sendak's acceptance speech upon being awarded the Caldecott Medal for "Where the Wild Things Are" (1964), as quoted in "Newbery and Caldecott Medal Books: 1956-65" edited by Lee Kingman, 1965.

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• We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

  Ariel Sharon

  Peace, Pain, Hands

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• Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, Citizens, Losing

  "The Bulldozer". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2001.

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• To the citizens of Israel, I say: We have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcome them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace.

  Ariel Sharon

  Lying, Opportunity, Israel

  "Disengagement Could Pave Way to Road Map". Ariel Sharon's speech in Sharm el-Sheikh, www.haaretz.com. February 9, 2005.

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• Divorce is probably as painful as death.

  William Shatner

  Divorce

  "William Shatner Bares His Soul". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. October 31, 2011.

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• Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

  Sivananda

  Pain, Yoga, Meditation Practice

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