#dreadful

Consider what it is like to go into a new classroom and to see before you suddenly, and in a way you cannot avoid recognizing, the dreadful consequences of a year's wastage of so many lives. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions. ↗

— Alex North

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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. ↗

— Sophocles

#help #how #knowledge #truth

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#being #dreadful #easier #go #happens

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs. ↗

— Ruth Gordon

#conversational #dates #dreadfully #gray #gray hairs

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

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If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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Even in the depths of dreadful situations, there's usually something rather comic, or something you can laugh about afterwards, at least. So, I do look for the comedy in those things. ↗

— Colm Meaney

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