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All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

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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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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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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict. ↗

— Fannie Lou Hamer

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The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Self-inflicted pain has a calming effect; it clears the head, diminishes one's fascination with the ego, and most important, gives one the sense of having taken some real action against the everyday foolishness of the body and of the vagrant, willful, heedless imagination. ↗

— Valerie Martin

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