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You come to this country, take advantage of the system and think because we are tolerant that we are weak and helpless. Your arrogance offends me. And for that the rate just went up 10%.

— Bryan (Liam Neeson), Taken

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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night

Life Ignorance Helplessness

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Fuck this.
Fuck this wondering. Fuck this trying and trying. Fuck this belief that two people can become one ideal. Fuck this helplessness. Fuck this waiting for something to happen that probably won't ever happen.

— David Leviathan, Nick & Nora's Infinite Playlist

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Buying a self-help book is usually the second-to-last step to surrendering to a crisis of self, the last step being therapy and the first step being a gym membership, or at least a Zumba DVD or a pamphlet on the Learning Annex.

— Michael Bennett MD, F*ck Feelings: One Shrink's Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems

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Redefine your goal, so that it’s not to pursue justice or punish unfairness but to accept the unfairness of the world, bear the humiliation and helplessness that go with it, and then seek to do the most good.

— Michael Bennett MD, F*ck Feelings: One Shrink's Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems

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The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart beat violently, and the breath come thick, by the force of the images they conjure up before it; the desperate anxiety to be doing something to relieve the pain, or lessen the danger, which we have no power to alleviate; the sinking of soul and spirit, which the sad remembrance of our helplessness produces; what tortures can equal these; what reflections of endeavours can, in the full tide and fever of the time, allay them!

— Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist: By Charles Dickens (Illustrated + Unabridged + Active Contents)

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It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 Book Series)

Control Fate Helplessness

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