#eases

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us. ↗

— Huston Smith

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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring. ↗

— Paul Ryan

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Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. ↗

— William Shenstone

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The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage. ↗

— Linda McMahon

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It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

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