"Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are."

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Brad Warner

#Ideas Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity; it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.”
“Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.”
“I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.”
“The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.”
“Chris Brown beat you because you're not pretty enough.”

Source : "Amanda Bynes goes after Rihanna, tweets ‘Chris Brown beat you because you’re not pretty enough’" by David K. Li, nypost.com. May 26, 2013.
“I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.”
“Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist country, erected upon the plunder of life, liberty, labor, and land. This plunder has not been exclusive to black people. - Ta”
“The only thing championship about Wimbledon is its prestige.”

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