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A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.
Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991) -
And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones.
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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 263 -
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
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How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'?
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I don't need to cry so much. I think whatever you let loose with crying, I let loose with singing. I tend to be the one who wants... I'm trying to say this without sounding too touchy-feely. I'm usually the one who's better at comforting the person who's crying, you know?
Jane magazine, April 2000 -
If the prospect of a bad result gets the heart racing - a plane crash, a terrible disease, a loss of 30 percent of your portfolio - most people will take strong steps to avoid it. They will pay too little attention to a comforting thought, which is that worst-case scenarios usually don't come to fruition.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never
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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.
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My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.
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On golden chairs
Sitting at ease, you paid for the songs which we chanted
To those less lucky. You paid us for drying their tears
And for comforting all those whom you had wounded.Poems, 1913-1956 Song of the cut-price poets [Lied der preiswerten -
Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.
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