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When I'm not acting, I do like to take a year off at a time, at least if I can, just in order to keep acting exciting - otherwise I get bored very quickly.
Heath Ledger
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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.


Barbara Jordan
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The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.


Helen Keller
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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.


Robert Frost
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I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.


Charles de Montesquieu
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I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.'
Jess Walter
The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
Thomas Malthus
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.


R. Buckminster Fuller
Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there is so much suffering, misfortune and misery in the world.
Julian Baggini
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We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.


Emile M. Cioran
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.


Laura San Giacomo
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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.
William O'Neill
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.


Ferdinand Lassalle
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With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of our present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing.
Joseph Hume
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.


Sophocles
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.


Oscar Wilde
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I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing to do their part. But then I have to do my part and give them a sound and a voice that they believe in enough to keep going.
Elizabeth Strout
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.


William James
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People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.


William McFee