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I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

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Jane WagnerThe Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A ...

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Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.

Those who complain most are most to be complained of.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change ...

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Maya AngelouWouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that y...

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Paulo CoelhoVeronika Decides to Die

If you took one-tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you...

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They were the sort who berated a man for meddling and chased him away, then berated him again for no...

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Mother Teresa didn't walk around complaining about her thighs -- she had shit to do.

She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.

In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining r...

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I have always found that actively lovingsaves one from a morbid preoccupationwith the shortcomings o...

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The only nations which deny the utility of provincial liberties are those which have fewest of them;...

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He was making the inevitable pivot from critic to manager.

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Chris MatthewsTip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the prese...

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Dale CarnegieHow to Win Friends and Influence People

See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find y...

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Eckhart TolleThe Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow wi...

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