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There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things. ↗

— Susan George

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It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

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Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought. ↗

— Mary Lyon

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I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. ↗

— Andre Malraux

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Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless. ↗

— Wendell Berry

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