#condemned

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. ↗

— Albert Camus

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Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

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In nations where the voices of intolerance are most visible and momentarily powerful, it is in our long run interests to remain firm in our clear articulation that the use of violence in response to speech is to be condemned. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

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A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity. ↗

— James Keller

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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. ↗

— Simone Weil

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I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality. ↗

— Troy Perry

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I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness. ↗

— Renee Vivien

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Then, after I came home from Europe, I found I was under condemnation; and I was condemned at that time because I did not endorse the financial policy of the General Conference. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

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