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Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.


Constantin Stanislavski
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It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.
Walter Kaufmann
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.


Miguel de Cervantes
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Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists.
Fred Thompson
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Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential.
Gijs de Vries
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If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.
Phil McGraw
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Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.
C. S. Lewis
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Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.


Albert Schweitzer
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You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.


Vera Farmiga
Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.
Mary Ellen Chase
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You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.


Brooke Shields
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The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?


Walter Kaufmann
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If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.


Ellie Kemper
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Wisdom comes alone through suffering.


Aeschylus
I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
Richard Pryor
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For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.
Paul Farmer
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The reward of suffering is experience.


Harry S Truman
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I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.


Caitlin Doughty
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Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.


Pamela Stephenson