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Letter "C" » cursed
«Perhaps it had nothing to do with sin and everything to do with sociopathy, that most incurable of human disorders because all so afflicted consider themselves blessed rather than cursed.»
«More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning»
«Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.»
Author: Arthur Koestler
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«It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine»
«In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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«Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.»
«Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? / Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? / But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.»
«If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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«The fire of doubt is not extinguished, even by wandering through foreign lands and countries. If inner filth is not removed, one's life is cursed, and one's clothes are cursed. There is no other way to perform devotional worship, except through the Teachings of the True Guru.»
«The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right!»
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