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• The terrible poetry of human nudity, I understand it at last, I who tremble for the first time in trying to read it with blasé eyes.

  Rachilde

  Eye, Trying, Lasts

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• There is nobody more terrible than the desperate.

  Alexander Suvorov

  Desperate

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• What is the free market? Well, the free market, [we're told] is really a terrible, inhuman kind of arrangement, because it treats people like commodities. But how does the government treat people? Like garbage-worse than garbage. Not like commodities, but like nothing. We libertarians understand that we are not humane, we are not compassionate. It's the leftists and the liberals, they're the ones who are human and compassionate, but you'd better not get in their way.

  Ralph Raico

  Government, People, Libertarian

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• Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification--crude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And the more magnification we use, the more details are brought out, perfectly formed, like endless sets of boxes within boxes.

  Roman Vishniac

  Hands, Lovely, Looks

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• Life is beautiful, and terrible, and strange.

  Johnette Napolitano

  Beautiful, Strange, Life Is

  "A sound vision" by Maddy Costa, Dave Simpson, Adam Sweeting, John Aizlewood, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2002.

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• I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.

  Trevor McDonald

  Coward, Facts, Constant

  Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

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• If it's that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven, think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in . He doesn't even have a bribe for the gatekeeper.

  Reverend Ike

  Men, Thinking, Heaven

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• You can’t lose with the stuff I use!”; “Some may say money is the root of all evil, but being in poverty is a damn shame!”; “The best thing you can do for the poor is not be one of them”; “God doesn’t want you to have your pie-in-the-sky, by and by, when you die. He wants you to have it now with a cherry on top!”; and “If it’s that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven, think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in. He doesn’t even have a bribe for the gatekeeper!

  Reverend Ike

  Men, Thinking, Pie

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• Nearly all the Gauls are of a lofty stature, white, and of ruddy complexion; terrible from the sternness of their eyes, very quarrelsome, and of great pride and insolence. A whole troop of foreigners would not be able to withstand a single Gaul if he called his wife to his assistance, who is usually very strong, and with blue eyes

  Ammianus Marcellinus

  Strong, Eye, Pride

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• It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.

  Andy Partridge

  Running, Pain, Play

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• I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.

  Rick Reilly

  Baby, Moon, Sugar

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• I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths.

  Charlie Simpson

  Math, Fine

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• I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.

  Bryan Singer

  Motivational, Kids, Numbers

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• "I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that!"

  Agatha Christie

  Math, Exercise, Men

  Agatha Christie (1980). “Five complete Miss Marple novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous work of Israeli dissenters and-most unforgivably-increased the risk of another merciless IDF assault.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Law, Justice, Risk

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• ... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.

  Keith Jarrett

  Taken, Player, Musician

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• I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Mixtures, Desks, Organized

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

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• Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Romantic, Two, Dating

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• Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Moving On, Years, Punishment

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• After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.

  Lena Horne

  Love, Pain, Nice

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• Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.

  Jane Rule

  Love Is, People, Secret Love

  Jane Rule (2013). “Against the Season: A Novel”, p.234, Open Road Media

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• It's very disappointing... Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

  Harmon Killebrew

  Baseball, Integrity, Games

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• There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Grief, Suffering, Sorrow

  Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.7, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

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• Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.

  Rosanne Cash

  Grief, Loss, Suffering

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• We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group, like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said, 'Shut them cunts up!' And they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The bands said, 'That's the Sons of Mumford' or something. 'They're number five in charts!' I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers.

  Mark E. Smith

  Son, Numbers, Groups

  "The Fall's Mark E. Smith Attacks Mumford & Sons" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. October 20, 2010.

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