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It is useless to attack a man who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position. Thucydides
If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation. Helen Keller
Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not about patting one another on the back and turning a blind eye to the wrong. True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the hurt, the truth. It could even sometimes make things worse. It is a risky undertaking but in the end it is worthwhile, because in the end only an honest confrontation with reality can bring real healing. Superficial... Desmond Tutu
When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse Theodore Dreiser
Though all winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple, who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter. John Milton
He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes. Barbara Kingsolver
William Shakespeare quote: "I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse..."
I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. William Shakespeare
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "I'm an invisible monster. I'm incapable of loving anybody. You..."
I'm an invisible monster. I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse. Chuck Palahniuk
it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists Christopher Hitchens
Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable. Brenda Ueland
Joseph Brodsky quote: "Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and..."
Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse Joseph Brodsky
George R. R. Martin quote: "There are worse things than dying with a song on your lips."
There are worse things than dying with a song on your lips. George R. R. Martin
Thomas Hardy quote: "And yet to every bad there's a worse."
And yet to every bad there's a worse. Thomas Hardy
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the..."
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself Jorge Luis Borges
in infinite space and time everything develops, becomes more perfect and more complex, is differentiated",is to say nothing at all. Those are all words with no meaning, for in the infinite is neither complex nor simple, no forward nor backward, or better or worse. Leo Tolstoy

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