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" About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it. "

" Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time. "

" A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease. "

" Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. "

" Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much...) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers. "

" Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. "

Theodore Dreiser

" As an Anglo-Indian kid in Bolton, I was basically in a minority of one. That was a source of misery, but at the same time, one of the effects of receiving the message that you don't belong to the club is that you watch the club with detachment. The fact that no one quite knew who I was was a major contributory factor in starting to write. "

" August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. "

" Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes. "

" By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. "

" Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing. "

" Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human misery. "

" Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. "

Bertrand Russell

" For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. "

" For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God. "

" For whoso dies for Christ, he is conqueror and is delivered from all misery and attains the eternal joy to which may it please our Saviour to bring us all. "

" Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared. "

" Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. "

William Cobbett

" He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery! "

" He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. "

" Human misery is too great for men to do without faith. "

" Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm. "

" Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. "

Federico Fellini

" I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. "

" I am talking about misery and all of its implications. "

" I began my work in the '70s, teaching at a university in Bangladesh, and these economic theories that I had learned stopped ringing true for me, as I saw the misery of people living all around me. "

" I come from a very dysfunctional family, so I was comfortable in misery. So I would create more misery for myself because I didn't know anything else. "

" I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. "

" I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us. "

" If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants. "

Douglas Hofstadter

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