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Think about it: Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam, North Korea, the former Soviet Union - they all start with the intention of leveling the playing field - or making things better for the little guy - and instead, they created misery, poverty, destruction and a permanent ruling class of bureaucrats.
Trish Regan /
Bureaucrats
Class
Cuba
Destruction
Former
Guy
Intention
Misery
Nicaragua
North Korea
Permanent
Poverty
Ruling
Soviet
Soviet Union
Venezuela
Vietnam
Little
Created
Field
Instead
Leveling
Making
North
Playing
Union
Ruling Class
Start
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If we had created rules to automatically turn up the required down payment on a home when there's a housing bubble, or just say that the mortgage on a property cannot be larger than the value of the property three years ago, the amount of human misery that would've been avoided would've been enormous.
Bill Foster / U.s. Representative
Avoided
Enormous
Housing
Misery
Mortgage
Payment
Automatically
Bubble
Required
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I still don't understand why we need a gigantic airport sprawled across South East England. What does it gain us, compared with the misery of noise, pollution and congestion it causes in our cramped country? Would it really be so bad if we had to take a train to Paris or Amsterdam to fly to the U.S.A.?
Peter Hitchens / Journalist
Amsterdam
Causes
Congestion
Misery
Noise
Pollution
Airport
Gain
Gigantic
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As members of a social species endowed with large brains, we are natural-born marketers. Capitalism, the economic system that has elevated innumerable people out of abject poverty and misery, is founded on marketing. Everything that defines your daily existence has the indelible marks of marketing on it.
Gad Saad / Scientist
Capitalism
Economic
Existence
Indelible
Marketers
Members
Misery
Poverty
Social
Species
Abject
Founded
Brains
Daily
Defines
Economic System
Elevated
Endowed
Large
System
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After a casual listen, it might be easy to lump Rocky Votolato in with the downtrodden likes of Conor Oberst and Elliott Smith. But his songwriting is a bit more triumphant than theirs: Votolato would rather pull himself out of a gutter than wallow in it, focusing instead on the victory before the misery.
Anthony Fantano /
Casual
Easy
Likes
Misery
Songwriting
Triumphant
Focusing
Gutter
Himself
Instead
Lump
Pull
Rocky
Smith
Wallow
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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
Sam Harris / Author
Enlightened
Misery
Openness
Recognise
Self-doubt
Tolerance
Willingness
Allow
View People See
Delude
Liberal
Points
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God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we've done or we're about to do. At times like this, it's wise to prayerfully consider whether we're offending God with our actions.
Joyce Meyer / Author
Wise
Conscience
Listening
Low Level
Misery
Offending
Actions
Begins
Speaking
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The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.
Dambisa Moyo / Author
Alleviate
Developing
Disaster
Done
Economic
Humanitarian
Millions
Misery
Myth
Notion
Political
Poverty
Today
World
Africa
Aid
Today Political World
Developing World
Ended
Increased
Parts
Poorer
Systemic
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Look at all the misery in the Middle East, for example. All these countries have Islam in common, and far too few dare to criticize Islam as an ideology, and what it's doing to these countries. I know I might get punched in the face for saying these things, but my conviction is that less religion in the world would be better.
Bjorn Ulvaeus / Songwriter
Conviction
Criticize
Dare
East
Ideology
Islam
Middle East
Misery
For Example
Punched
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There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.
Robert Baden-Powell / Writer
Environment
Misery
Receptive
Saved
Surroundings
Useless
Daily
Wasted
Therefore
Thousands
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To be clear, I abhor the separation wall. It is an eyesore in itself and makes tangible the failed diplomacy and cruel short-sightedness that causes such misery in the region. No Palestinian can see that wall and not wonder if the Israelis mean it to stay there forever, a constant reminder of what they never intend to change.
Howard Jacobson / Author
Causes
Constant
Diplomacy
Misery
Palestinian
Separation
Tangible
Abhor
Cruel
Failed
Intend
Israelis
Region
Reminder
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Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Happiness
Conversation
Misery
Polite
Time Yourself Feel
Inside
Yourself
Feel
Aside
Those
Letting
Necessarily
Push
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Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.
P. T. Barnum / Businessman
Daughter
Being Rich
Every Man
Fall
Fortune
Lost
May
Might
Misery
Mother
Persons
Poor
Profession
Provision
Rich
Son
Tangible
Today
Tomorrow
Trade
Unexpected
Today Man Tomorrow
Useful
Back
Days
Changing
Today Tomorrow Man
Learn
Save
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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
Camille Paglia / Teacher
Barbie
Children
Extensions
Fashion
Hair
Lifeless
Misery
Moments
Necks
Orange
Spray
Tanning
Thick
Afflicted
Android
Complaint
Creep
Fad
Round
Ladies
Lesser
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Part of what motivated my writing was anger. I was angry that the daily misery of doctors, nurses, and patients was being trivialised into soap opera. We were made to feel bad because we were not perfect like our television counterparts. We were resentful that our patients did not get better as quickly as they did on telly - or at all.
Jed Mercurio /
Anger
Counterparts
Doctors
Misery
Motivated
Not Perfect
Opera
Resentful
Soap
Nurses
Patients
Soap Opera
Telly
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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.
Glen Duncan / Author
Detachment
Effects
Misery
Receiving
Belong
Factor
Minority
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She (Judy Garland) was a friend of mine, a trying friend, but a friend. That is what I tell myself: She did everything she ever wanted to do. She never really denied herself anything for me. See, I say, she had a wonderful life; she did what she wanted to do. And I have no right to change her fulfillment into my misery. I'm on my own broom now.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Misery
Trying
Wonderful
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There are urges and urges; you are exploding with urges, desires. You don`t have one desire, you have many desires. Not only that you have many desires, you have contradictory desires. If one is fulfilled, the other, which is its contradiction, remains unfulfilled and you are in misery. If the other is fulfilled, then something else remains unfulfilled.
Rajneesh / Guru
Contradiction
Desire
Misery
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When you share your misery, it will not diminish. When you fail to share your joy, it diminishes. Share your problems only with the Divine, not with anyone else, as that will only increase the problems. Share your joy with everyone. Listen to others; yet do not listen. If your mind gets stuck in their problems, not only are they miserable, but you also become miserable.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar / Spiritual Leader
Joy
Mind
Misery
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If you are happy, you are happy; nobody asks you why you are happy. Yes, if you are miserable, a question is relevant. If you are miserable, somebody can ask why you are miserable, and the question is relevant - because misery is against nature, something wrong is happening. When you are happy, nobody asks you why you are happy, except for a few neurotics. There are such people; I cannot deny the possibility.
Rajneesh / Guru
Happiness
Misery
People
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It is what is left to him," said Will. "Do you not recall what he says to Lucie? 'If it had been possible... that you could have returned the love of the man you see before yourself- flung away, wasted, drunken, poor creature of misure as you know him to be- he would have been conscious this day and hour, in spite of his happiness, that he would bring you misery, bring you to sorrow and repetance, blight you, disgrace you, pull you down with him
Cassandra Clare / Author
Men
Misery
Sorrow
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