#inflict

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you. ↗

— Sebastian Coe

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If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#destiny #fate #inflicted #upon #will

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cruelty #delight #good #hell #infliction

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#absolutely #almost #both #equipment #hands

I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

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Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism. ↗

— Abe Fortas

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If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government. ↗

— Tommy Franks

#constitution #destruction #discarded #favor #form

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public. ↗

— Robert Morley

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