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«We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.»
Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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«What can be said in New Year rhymes,That's not been said a thousand times?The new years come, the old years go,We know we dream, we dream we know.We rise up laughing with the light,We lie down weeping with the night.We hug the world until it stings,We curse it then and sigh for wings.We live, we love, we woo, we wed,We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead.We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.»
«The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which»
Author: James Matthew Barrie
(Dramatist, Novelist)
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«This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.»
«What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.»
«Work is the curse of the drinking classes.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Work
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«We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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