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“Making the rich poorer does not make the poor richer, but it does make the state stronger—and it does increase the power of officials and politicians, power more menacing, more permanent and less useful than market power within the rule of law. Inequality of income can only be eliminated at the cost of freedom. The pursuit of income equality will turn this country into a totalitarian slum.”

“It is the Path by which, to use a simile often used, instead of going round and round the mountain by an ever-climbing spiral, man climbs straight up the mountainside regardless of cliff and precipice, regardless of gulf and chasm, knowing there is nothing that can stop the Eternal Spirit, and that no obstacle is stronger than the strength that is omnipotence, because it has its source in Omnipotence itself.”

“What Hubble discovered was the expansion of the universe…. We are not expanding. Nor is Brooklyn. Nor is earth. Nor is the solar system. Nor, in fact, is the Milky Way galaxy. Nor even those aggregates of thousands of galaxies that we call "galaxy clusters." These collections of matter are bound together by chemical and gravitational forces between their constituents—forces that are stronger than the force of expansion.”

“[On dealing with physical and emotional pain] … a friend taught me before I gave birth…“don't try to take your mind away from the pain. Go right into the centre of the pain”, because when she did that she found the pain dissipated. It's true for me anyway, but it's not always possible, I admit. It has become a valuable exercise to apply to different things in life, of not avoiding or disregarding pain or bad feelings. I just have to remember that nothing in life is ever stagnant and that this grief or ache is going to change because everything in life changes.”

“[P]leasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good: pain is in itself an evil; and, indeed, without exception, the only evil; or else the words good and evil have no meaning. And this is alike true of every sort of pain, and of every sort of pleasure.”

“It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness”

“It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.”

“The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.”

“You feel your strength in the experience of pain.”

“Don't make light of any man's pain.”

“There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.”

“pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more.”

“One moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory.”

“Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there.”

“Come, see the true
flowers
of this pained world.”

“There's no pain on earth that doesn't crave a benevolent witness.”

“Church of painful love - unfulfilled, unrequited & unattained”

“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.”

“Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.”