Quotes with crushing

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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Simone Weil Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Milan Kundera Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Bobby Schilling One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids.
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  • Ann Patchett Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Ben Stein Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Barry Eichengreen Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow.
    Barry Eichengreen
    American economist
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  • William Blake Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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