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Miss Webb, I have been to hundreds of houses, countless seances, and I have never yet seen something that can't be explained in rational terms. The people I've met all have one thing in common; pain.

— Prof. David Ash (Aidan Quinn), Haunted

Superstition Pain Rational

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I judge religions on the basis of what they do, and I'm afraid to say that the insidious power of religion has been with us for thousands of years. I do not respect irrationality, stupidity, or superstition, and much of religion is rooted in these.

— Al Goldstein, Al Goldstein Interview

Religion stupidity Superstition

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A 2016 study that followed participants for an average of 19 years found that unfit skinny people were twice as likely to get diabetes as fit fat people. Habits, no matter your size, are what really matter.

— Michael Hobbes, Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong

Health Superstition Healthcare fat Working Out Exercise habits Diabetes

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U.S. policy has created a food system that excels at producing flour, sugar and oil but struggles to deliver nutrients at anywhere near the same scale.

— Michael Hobbes, Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong

Health Superstition Healthcare food

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I hate astrology. What, everybody born in the same month is gonna have the same life?

— Daniel Desario (James Franco), Freaks and Geeks, Season 1: Carded and Discarded

Astrology Superstition

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Ada, our ardors and arbors— sang through his brain.

— Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

This Could Be Heaven or Hell The Axis of Shadow & Light Religion Superstition

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Sometimes it’s the right guy, but the wrong time. God may need you and Him to go through a process first before He can bring you two into a successful relationship together.

— Stephan Labossiere, God Where Is My Boaz: A woman's guide to understanding what's hindering her from receiving the love and man she deserves

Intimacy God Superstition Relationships

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God’s path to your blessing may not always make sense.

— Stephan Labossiere, God Where Is My Boaz: A woman's guide to understanding what's hindering her from receiving the love and man she deserves

Intimacy God Superstition Relationships

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Every discovery in public health, no matter how significant, must compete with the traditions, assumptions and financial incentives of the society implementing it.

— Michael Hobbes, Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong

Health Superstition Healthcare

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I was always afraid of my mum or dad dying when I was a child. I used to play this game where if I ran on the road and stepped on a cracked paving slab, it meant that something bad was going to happen to them.

— Ozzy Osbourne, Ozzy Osbourne: ‘My problem, really, is I don’t remember I’m 70’ [He’s 69]

Fear Fear Of Death Superstition dread foreboding

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It is true that they looked upon any little thing that I gave them as a wonder, and they held our arrival to be a great marvel, believing that we came from heaven.

— Christopher Columbus, via eada.lib.umd.edu

Colonialism Indigenous Superstition

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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

— Paulo Coelho, By The River Pedra I Sat Down And Wept

Waiting Forgetting Moving On Limbo Suffering Pain

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It’s amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.

— Robert Cormier, Heroes

Heartbreak Irony Broken Heart Pain Sadness

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Turn your wounds into wisdom.

— Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Winfrey: "Wounds Into Wisdom" And Other Lessons From Her Childhood Abuse: "Wounds Into Wisdom" And Other Lessons From Her Childhood Abuse: "Wounds Into Wisdom" And Other Lessons From Her Childhood Abuse

Experience Sufferings Life Lessons Pain Wisdom Learning

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Time will break what doesn’t bend — even time. Even you.

— Kaveh Akbar, Despite My Efforts Even My Prayers Have Turned into Threats by Kaveh Akbar

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Thank you for loving me when I still tasted of heartache and war.

— Nikita Gill, via Tumblr

Pain Love Unconditional Love

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You are not defined by your pain, by your past, by what has broken you. You are defined by how you believe and by how you rise. — Marisa Donnelly

You are not defined by your pain, by your past, by what has broken you. You are defined by how you believe and by how you rise.

— Marisa Donnelly, It’s Time To Stop Letting Your Past Define Your Future

Pain Past Definitions H4D-19

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To hurt is as human as to breathe.

— J. K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

Pain Human Nature hurt Heartbreaks

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I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

— banksy, Vandalizing with Aerosoul: Banksy, the Mystery Man

Death Pain Leaving

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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

— Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Spanish and English Edition)

Love Forgetting Letting Go Pain Sadness

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People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it’s the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.

— Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

Broken Hearts Pain heart Sadness

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The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

— Lois Lowry, The Giver

Memories Pain Loneliness sharing memories Nostalgia Alone Solitude

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Thoughts could leave deeper scarring than almost anything else.

— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix

Thoughts Memory Pain

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Nothing is worse than when someone who’s supposed to love you just leaves.

— Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead: A Novel

Love Leaving Letting Go Pain Sadness

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We don’t even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.

— Charles Bukowski, Letter to William Packard

Happiness Pain Desire

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