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“On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Past Humanity Given Justice Dark Race Example Advantage Painful Contrary Treated Unfortunate Prosperous

Book:SERVING THE REPUBLIC

Source: SERVING THE REPUBLIC

“I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.”

“The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.”

Thinking Trying Mean Has Beens Reality Circumstances Painful Spending Ministers Things To Do Right Thing Prime Prime Minister Private Sector Borrowing Chunks Bail

Author:John Redwood

“Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past.”

People Way Has Beens Made Past Wish Revolution Crisis Democratic Painful Leap Farming Industrial Revolution Recoil

Book:The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy

Source: The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy

“What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.”

World Has Beens Made Done Effort Masters Genius Cost Bird Painful Spontaneous Nests

Book:Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters

Source: Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters

“We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful. Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle. We could have been ourselves without our delights, but not without the misfortunes that drive our search for meaning. 'Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities,' St. Paul wrote in Second Corinthians, 'for when I am weak, then I am strong.'”

“A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover.”

Men World May Doe Has Beens Easy Differences He Man Painful Another World Space Travel

Book:Perelandra

Source: Perelandra

“I shudder at the very thought of being born again into this world. Life to me . . . has been a monstrous, painful, agonizing affair, and the idea of repeating such an existence - even if better in a way - is horrifying to me. . . . I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.”

Ifs World Way Looks Has Beens Ideas Born Existence This World Affair Painful Oblivion Monstrous Born Again Agonizing World Life

Author:Taylor Caldwell