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• The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Powerful, Weak, Said

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.195

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• Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

  Edith Sitwell

  Fashion, Vices, Taste

  "The Last Years of a Rebel: A Memoir of Edith Sitwell". Book by Edith Sitwell, 1967.

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• Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Years, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty

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• The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments. As terrible as these catastrophes would be for us, they can be repaired in a few generations. The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

  E. O. Wilson

  War, Loss, Government

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• The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Evil, Poverty, Crime

  Major Barbara (1907) preface

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• Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Civilization, Poverty, Danger

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Evil, Poverty, Firsts

  Major Barbara (1907) preface

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• All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

  Mark Twain

  Daughter, People, Luck

  Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine (1971). “Mark Twain's notebook”, Scholarly Pr

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• I have been heart broken. You can't breathe, your eyes are pouring a thousand tears a second and you can't foresee going on with love because you never want to feel this way again. But then you have to look in the mirror and say 'Shut up, eat some ice cream, be by yourself for a while and think about who you are and who you want to be - then, go out and find someone compatible.' A broken heart feels like the worst thing in the whole world, but it really helps you decide what you want and don't want. You learn a lot from a broken heart.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Goodbye, Missing Someone, Heart

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• To fear the worst oft cures the worst.

  William Shakespeare

  Anxiety, Cures

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.750

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• Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.

  Plautus

  Pain, Men, Littles

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• The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Class, Clique

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4009, e-artnow

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• The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Evil, Dying

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• The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Atheism, Vices, Sincerity

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• People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound. They're like, 'It was the worst day of my life. We didn't board for 20 minutes and they made us sit there on the runway for 40 minutes.' Oh really? What happened next? Did you fly in the air, incredibly, like a bird? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight you non-contributing zero?'

  Louis C. K.

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Mean

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• I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Wisdom, Book, Reading

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• To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Money, Evil, Gains

  Charles Caleb Colton (1828). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think”, p.191

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• Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wisdom, Communication, Opinion

  Jonathan Swift (1998). “The Sayings of Jonathan Swift”, p.21, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.

  Thomas Paine

  Religion, World, Christianity

  Thomas Paine, Philip Sheldon Foner (1993). “The life and major writings of Thomas Paine”, Citadel Pr

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• And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

  Daniel Defoe

  Doubt, Atheism, Tyranny

  'The True-Born Englishman' (1701) pt. 2, l. 299

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• As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what is happening, as long as we're always running from discomfort, we're going to be caught in a cycle of unhappiness and discomfort, and we will feel weaker and weaker. This way of seeing helps us develop inner strength. And what's especially encouraging is the view that inner strength is available to us at just the moment when we think that we've hit the bottom, when things are at their worst.

  Pema Chodron

  Strength, Happiness, Encouraging

  "Practicing Peace in Times of War". Book by Pema Chodron, books.google.ru. 2007.

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• In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?

  Hannah More

  Fear, Grief, Ends

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.121

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• Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Government, Democracy

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• The proof of a man is the danger test, That shows him up at his worst or best.

  Edgar Guest

  Military, Men, Tests

  "Over Here".

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