#plain

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well. ↗

— Jim Rohn

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I can't complain about my career, that's for sure. ↗

— Ray Romano

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In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved. ↗

— Kenneth Joseph Arrow

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I can't complain about my life. I have a really nice life. I have a great family and I live in a gorgeous part of the country. ↗

— Mary Decker

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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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It was Jung who first said to explain the symbol as if talking to a man from mars who knew nothing about our life on earth. ↗

— Henry Reed

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Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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