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“The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, who in less than three decades killed or maimed nearly a hundred million men, women, and children and brought untold suffering to a large portion of mankind.”

Men Children Suffering Hate Three Evil Millions Mankind Century Hundred Decades Gentle Portions Twentieth Century Men Women Monstrous Dove Stalin And Hitler

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of the war. “Not even Hiroshima and Nagasaki, suffering the smashing blows of nuclear explosions, could match the utter hell of Hamburg.”

People War Suffering Three Courses Hell Ten Hundred Died Blow Nuclear Explosions Hiroshima Smashing Blitz Hiroshima And Nagasaki Coventry

Author:Martin Caidin

“An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any.”

Suffering Three Quality Stranger Partners His Love Englishmen

Author:John Lyly

“I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.”

Firsts Suffering Three Term Drink One Day Cost Equal Thirds Repent Sinning Intemperance

Book:The works of Laurence Sterne

Source: The works of Laurence Sterne

“I have a very simple question to people who seem to suffer from excessive narcissism: please name three other persons who are smarter and more capable than you, in the field you work in. (In most cases they are utterly unable to answer that question honestly.)”

People Persons Seems Suffering Three Names Simple Answers Cases Fields Please Capable Honestly Narcissism Smarter

Author:Ingo Molnar

“The death, and the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus happened over three days. Friday was the day of suffering and pain and agony. Saturday was the day of doubt and confusion and misery. But Easter, that Sunday, was the day of hope and joy and victory. You will face these three days over and over and over in your lifetime. And when you do, you’ll find yourself asking, as I did, three fundamental questions: Number one, what do I do in my days of pain? Two, how do I get through my days of doubt and confusion? Three, how do I get to the days of joy and victory? The answer is Easter.”

“Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.”

Ifs Men Way Suffering Three Lovers Dating Reform Delusion Rejected Heartbroken

Author:Myrtle Reed

“The Vietnam war will not be over until it ends for everyone. Over four hundred thousand U.S. veterans are still recovering from wounds inflicted on their bodies and their spirit. Sixty-three million souls in Vietnam are still suffering from their 'victory.”

Stills War Soul Ends Body Spirit Suffering Three Millions Four Victory Thousand Hundred Wounds Vietnam Sixty Veteran Vietnam War Recovering

Book:When Heaven & Earth Change Places

Source: When Heaven & Earth Change Places

“Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor.”

“The average person suffers from three delusions: 1) That he is a good driver 2) That he has a good sense of humor and 3) That he is a good listener.”

Persons Suffering Three Average Delusion Drivers Sense Of Humor Listeners Good Sense Average Person Good Listener Good Sense Of Humor

Author:Steven Sample

“They say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn one way or another anything; there are people who learn from their own mistakes, eventually and with great pain; and then there are the really wise people who learn from other people's mistakes and spare themselves the suffering.”

People World Way Kind Pain Suffering Three Mistake Wise One Way Spares Wise People

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed, disembowelled, mangled; their dead bodies rot and their eyes decay with the rest. Screams of pain and fear go pulsing through the air at the rate of eleven hundred feet per second. After travelling for three seconds they are perfectly inaudible. These are distressing facts; but do we enjoy life any the less because of them? Most certainly we do not.”

“I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.”

Able Film Suffering Three Hours Australia Colleagues Arrivals

Author:David Attenborough