"Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it."

-- Ray Kurzweil

#Mean Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“You must not imagine that Papa or I have the least notion of compelling you to marry anyone whom you hold in aversion, for I am sure that such a thing would be quite shocking! And Charles would not do so either, would you, dear Charles?â€(Elizabeth Ombersley) â€œNo, certainly not. But neither would I consent to her marriage with any such frippery fellow as Augustus Fawnhope!â€ â€œAugustus,â€ announced Cecilia, putting up her chin, â€œwill be remembered long after you have sunk into oblivion!â€ â€œBy his creditors? I donâ€™t doubt it.”
“I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up.”

Source : "Chelsea Peretti Is About To Get Very Famous". Interview with Rose Surnow, www.cosmopolitan.com. June 11, 2013.
“Randy Orton is dangerous and that man is delusional!”
“There's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment, when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.”
“When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.”
“I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.”
“I asked no odds and I give none. A guy got in my way, I run over him.”
“The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of the state. But to destroy it at such a moment would be to destroy the only organism by means of which the victorious proletariat can assert its newly-conquered power, hold down its capitalist adversaries, and carry out that economic revolution of society without which the whole victory must end in a new defeat and a mass slaughter of the workers similar to those after the Paris commune.”

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