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• For the believer in divine creation, the open question of the Mystery of Being is like an open wound. It stings and gapes, and the believer cannot rest till it be healed up, closed up, smeared with the soothing balm of an answer, even if his doctrine be a sophisticated one like Aquinas's or that of the latest Liberal Protestant theologian.

  Robert M. Price

  Doctrine, Answers, Mystery

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• The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on the festering wound of Neo-Liberalism.

  Vanessa Veselka

  Tea, Looks, Band

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• You must bind up any wounds you give the earth and you must feed her to replace what you take from her. Every gift she gives, every tree, every stalk of grain, costs her. Only if you repay your debts will she continue to provide.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Giving, Tree, Cost

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• Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us able to heal. Becoming expert has turned out to be less important than remembering and trusting the wholeness in myself and everyone else. Expertise cures, but wounded people can best be healed by other wounded people. Only other wounded people can understand what is needed, for the healing of suffering is compassion, not expertise.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Healing, Compassion, People

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.158, Penguin

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• The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and the wounds of the poor.

  E. B. White

  Giving, Bonus, Rich

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• God who gives the wound gives the salve.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  God, Giving

  Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition”, p.310, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.

  Winston Churchill

  Loss, Feelings, Finals

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Razors, Satire, Should

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, “Verses Addressed To The Imitator Of The First Satire Of The Second Book Of Horace”

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• God cannot use a man or woman greatly until he wounds them deeply.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Use

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• He does me double wrong
  That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Doe, Tongue, Flattery

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.335, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Writing, Secret, Lines

  Cynthia Ozick (1987). “The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever.

  Marcel Proust

  Truth, Ideas, Giving

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Cities of the Plain (Sodom and Gomorrah)”, p.550, Booklassic

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• Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.

  Tony Benn

  Please Me, Old Wounds, Energy

  "Mr Benn delays EEC meeting". "The Times" Newspaper, December 13, 1975.

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• Paint here no draped despairs, no saddening clouds, Where the soul rests, proclaims eternity. But let the wrong cry out as raw as wounds, This Time forgets and never heals, far less transcends.

  Stephen Spender

  Clouds, Soul, Despair

  "Poems (In Railway Halls, on Pavements Near the Traffic)". Book by Stephen Spender, 1933.

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• Under the olive trees, from the ground Grows this flower, which is a wound. It is easier to ignore Than the heroes' sunset fire Of death plunged in their willed desire Raging with flags on the world's shore.

  Stephen Spender

  Flower, Hero, Sunset

  Stephen Spender (2015). “Selected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.54, Faber & Faber

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• Unless you are fulfilling your spiritual mission (and this is my opinion totally), you anaesthetize yourself or you wound yourself.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Spiritual, Opinion, Missions

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• She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me.

  Billy Joel

  Children, Lying, Eye

  FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Aug 13, 2013

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• The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see. If both, experts and laymen, were asked to make exact copies of what they see, their drawings would be quite different.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Drawing, Preparation, Novices

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.302, Univ of California Press

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• The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Strong, Too Much, Beast

  Quoted in Hedrick Smith The Power Game (1988).

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• Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.

  Washington Allston

  Humility, Healing, Pride

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• The wound that's made by fire will heal,
  But the wound that's made by tongue will never heal.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Fire, Tongue, Made

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• People marry with a deep longing that their partner will tend to their wounds, not throw salt in them. Honor your partner's vulnerability.

  Harriet Lerner

  People, Honor, Salt

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• Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.

  Warren Farrell

  Daughter, Dad, Father

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights, and as long as the weights were wound, the clock continued ticking away. But with people gone and the weights unattended, whole chunks of time were left to collect in deposits of faded life on the floor.

  Haruki Murakami

  Long, People, House

  "A Wild Sheep Chase". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1982.

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• whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.

  Henri Barbusse

  Ignorance, Study, Devotion

  Henri Barbusse (2009). “The Inferno”, p.236, The Floating Press

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