![The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-same-suffering-is-much-harder-to-bear-for-a-high-motive-than-for-a-base-one.jpg)
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morning
I'm not a morning person. I'm really not. Brooke Burke
morning memories heart
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morning thinking elephants
And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet. Cecelia Ahern
morning generosity tree
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morning silly missing
I wake up in the morning and I feel like I’m missing something. I know that there’s something not right, and it takes me a while to remember what it is . . . then I remember. My best friend is gone. My only friend. It was silly of me to rely so much on one person.
morning stars thinking
Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life everyday, you say good morning, you say good evening, some stay for a few minutes, some stay for a few months, some a year, others a whole lifetime. No matter who it is, you meet and then you part. I'm so glad I met you Elizabeth Egan; I'll thank my lucky stars for that. I think I wished for you all of my life" He whispered. "But now it is time for us to part.
morning prayer husband
Every Wednesday, my husband and I have a study group with our friends. I attend church. We try to devote time in the morning, say a prayer. Carrie Underwood
war
I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not. Chris Matthews
war
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war
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war men mastery
There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men. Bertrand Russell
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war support suffering
Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us. William Shakespeare
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And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years. Gianni Agnelli
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eight woody
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That was huge. We turned it over 24 times in our last game and eight times in a 10-possession stretch. Without a doubt, it makes a big, big, big difference. Steve Fisher
eight languages speaks woman
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