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• The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

  Marya Mannes

  Dream, Romantic Love, Reality

  Marya Mannes (1971). "Fuera de mi tiempo"

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• Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, People, Talent

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• In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Women, Race, Woe

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• speed is the curse of the age.

  Georgette Heyer

  Age, Speed

  Georgette Heyer (2010). “Death in the Stocks”, p.188, Random House

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• Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

  Susanna Moodie

  Home, Chickens, Roost

  Susanna Moodie (2011). “Roughing it in the Bush: Or, Life in Canada”, p.158, Cambridge University Press

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• Denúnciame por defender la libertad si puedes, y soportaré tu maldición con mejor resignación.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Bears, Advocating, Resignation

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1872). "Discurso sobre los principios de la libertad social", p.40

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• Algunos dicen que el SIDA vino de los monos, y yo lo dudo porque convivimos con monos desde tiempos inmemoriales, otros dicen que fue una maldición de Dios, pero yo digo que no puede ser eso.

  Wangari Maathai

  Doubt, Hiv, Monkeys

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• We never pray against our government or call down curses on them. Instead, we have learned that God is in control both of our own lives and the government we live under. God has used China's government for His own purposes, molding and shaping His children as He sees fit. Instead of focusing our prayers against any political system, we pray that regardless of what happens to us, we will be pleasing to God.

  Hermano Yun

  Prayer, Children, Government

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• Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

  H. G. Wells

  Life, History, Crude

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• Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

  James Larkin

  Country, Intolerance, Has Beens

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• I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him.

  Vincent Gallo

  Sorry, Apology, Pigs

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• La religión sin moralidad es una superstición y una maldición, y la moralidad sin religión es imposible.

  Mark Hopkins

  Supersticiones, Ética, Moral

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• En nuestra época, la maldición es el analfabetismo monetario, al igual que la incapacidad de leer la letra llana fue la maldición de siglos anteriores.

  Ezra Pound

  Inability, Literature, Pounds

  Ezra Pound (1952). "Guía de Kulchur", p.196, New Directions Publishing

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• Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

  Hannah Arendt

  Growth, One Day, May

  Hannah Arendt (1963). "Sobre la revolución", Viking Press

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• Demasiado de cualquier cosa puede enfermarte, incluso lo bueno puede ser una maldición - Cheryl Cole

  Cheryl Cole

  Sick, Too Much

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• Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.

  Thomas Adams

  Prayer, Enemy, Ears

  Thomas Adams (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.351

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• Cada vez que miramos la cruz, Cristo parece decirnos: "Estoy aquí por ti. Es tu pecado el que llevo, tu maldición la que sufro, tu deuda la que pago, tu muerte la que agonizo'. No hay nada en la historia ni en el universo que nos reduzca tanto como la cruz.

  John Stott

  Cutting, Gay, Suffering

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Galatians”, p.63, InterVarsity Press

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• The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Men, Woe

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• La magia negra actúa con mayor eficacia en las zonas preconscientes y marginales. Las maldiciones casuales son las más eficaces.

  William S. Burroughs

  Black, Magic, Casual

  William S. Burroughs (1988). "Las tierras del Oeste", Penguin Group USA

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• El problema de las personas malvadas es que sólo pueden ver el mal en los demás. Es una de las peores maldiciones de ser malvado, que ya no puedes experimentar el bien.

  Michael Gruber

  Evil People, Problem, Worst

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• It's a weird curse, when you think about it. We're built for thought, and civilization, more than any other creature we've found. And all we really want to be is killers.

  Josh Bazell

  Thinking, Civilization, Want

  Josh Bazell (2009). “Beat The Reaper”, p.29, Random House

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• Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

  William Arthur Ward

  Change, Summer, Thankful

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• It's a sleepy, wonderful, idyllic town but there's a curse on it from 100 years ago, ... The people who died in this kind of boating accident have come back to take their revenge.

  Selma Blair

  Revenge, Years, People

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• I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse.

  Sienna Miller

  Blessing, Decision, Brain

  "Sienna Miller confesses: 'I have been foolish when it comes to love'". www.mirror.co.uk. August 5, 2009.

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• the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

  John Knowles

  Tone, Separate Peace, Force

  John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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