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• The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look forward to but death. Each was certain the others had been destroyed. What man ever born, not excepting Job, who would not have died of despair, when in such weather seeking safety for my son, my brother, shipmates, and myself, we were forbidden [access to] the land and the harbors which I, by God's will and sweating blood, had won for Spain?

  Christopher Columbus

  Brother, Jobs, Son

  Letter to the Sovereigns, Fourth Voyage, July 07, 1503.

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• This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English.

  Roberto Benigni

  Mistake, Oscars, Used

  Roberto Benigni's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 21, 1999.

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• To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Country, Fate

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• However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence. . . . Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Book, Exercise

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• There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for, that have gagged generations, depriving them of significant and natural means of expression. This is a terrible loss and an unnecessary one.

  Peter London

  Wise, Art, Mean

  Peter London (1989). “No More Secondhand Art”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.

  Judd Apatow

  Bombs, Making Money, Reviews

  Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. July 9, 2008.

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• All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children, on this the suicided parents, here the beloved mentally ill siblings. When something terrible happens, you discover all of the sudden that you have a new set of relatives, people with whom you can speak in the shorthand of cousins.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Cousin, Children, Sibling

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• Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?

  T. H. White

  Consciousness, Reason, Ends

  T.H. White (2012). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.64, University of Texas Press

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• Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

  Ernest Becker

  Responsibility, Guilt, Burden

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean that both sides are equally wrong; it means that since we all fall short of moral perfection, even the side whose cause is truly righteous may commit terrible acts of violence in defense of that cause -- and, worse, may feel quite justified in committing them. That is the difference between being righteous and being self-righteous. Moral standards are absolute; but human fidelity to them is always relative.

  Joseph Sobran

  Fall, Mean, Self

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• When the weather changes and hurricanes hit, nobody believes that the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. It's the same stock market with the same mechanisms and the same people.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Believe, Law, Weather

  "A Theory of Roughness". The Edge Interview, www.edge.org. December 20, 2004.

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• It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Silly, Artist, People

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• To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

  Peter Gay

  Able, Kind, Psychological

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• When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Littles, Suits, Temperament

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• In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.

  Wilfred Burchett

  War, Islands, Years

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• We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Thinking, Hands, Cards

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• We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.

  Ismail Merchant

  Judgment, Made, Reviews

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• She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white whose gentle voice was soft and sad.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Laughter, Fall

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• In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

  Josiah Strong

  Change, Europe, Earthquakes

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• Whatever our personal burden or cross to bear might be, we are here. We live! We Learn! The Grand Adventure is under way for us. Terrible as our trials might be, we are blessed and not abandoned by God.

  Elaine A. Cannon

  Blessed, Learning, Adventure

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• The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

  Lytton Strachey

  Peace, War, Brilliant

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.37, Delphi Classics

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• There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.

  Terence Fisher

  Loss, Preparation, Important

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• Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

  Isabel Paterson

  Rugged, Right Now, Knows

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• Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Believe, Land, People

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• Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.

  Paul Volcker

  Double Standard, Feds, Bases

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