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When a man cannot fight he would curse. The gods like to feel needed.

It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been bel...

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Bertrand RussellAn Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity

The women in porn plead to be abused. They call themselves whores and sluts. They are beaten and pen...

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Chris HedgesEmpire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing u...

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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street ...

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In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky — her grand old woods —...

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Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and great...

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H. L. MenckenThe Artist: A Drama Without Words

Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?

There is nothing like being told to go fuck yourself by the same person who was, only days before, p...

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Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?"Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking ...

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What was a kiss without a kiss?" It was a tablecloth tugged from beneath a party service, everything...

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Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible...

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Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have rest...

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Better my right hand should have been cut off. Go know I was setting in motion events that would lea...

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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the pl...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted...

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Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to...

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Money! Money's the curse of man, none greater.That's what wrecks cities, banishes men from homes,Tem...

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Now get going. You'll find a way of calm through.""And you, Mael?""I'll drop in later. I've things f...

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If human pleasure did not have both a lid and a time limit, we would not bestir ourselves to do thin...

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Thomas LigottiThe Conspiracy Against the Human Race

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious...

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And I would tell him, as we rise into the air, The curse is not that we cannot choose our Fates.The ...

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Alexander CheeThe Queen of the Night

Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people...

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Alfred North WhiteheadDialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

I've never understood why the majority of human curses and insults refer to the erotic sphere. Sex i...

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Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory ...

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