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«He sees it in the juvenile street gangs, who live in fear of death and who propagate fear by inflicting death to banish fear. And he sees it at its worst, as the result of violent emotions bursting into the mind and erupting from the hands.»
Author: Ed McBain
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«Leaders don't inflict pain - they share pain.»
«If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you»
Author: William Irwin Thompson
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Destiny
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create, destiny, fate, inflicted, inflicting, the Fates
«I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultiv»
Author: Dalai Lama
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Pain
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«The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.»
Author: Emile M. Cioran
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flesh, fleshed, inflicting, inflicts, torments, undergoes, undergone, underwent
«Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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a hundred, a hundred times, correct, good sense, gratuitous, guilty, impose, infamies, infamy, inflicted, inflicting, nay, nays, not guilty, piece, punishment, rebellion, rouse, rouses, rousing, The Victim, victim
«PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction --prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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blameless, inflicting, pillory, prototype, prototypes
«Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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animals, cruel, inflicting, inflicts, The Animals, The Pleasure
«Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.»
«It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals are imbibed. How sinful is it to feed on animals, which are sustained by the same five elements as human beings! This leads to demonic tendencies, besides committing the sin of inflicting cruelty on animals.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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consumes, demonic, feed on, human flesh, imbibed, imbibes, inflicting, sustained
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