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"The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing."
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"Don't complain against life, it may hear you and double your suffering."

"The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects."

"Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink."

"If anyone comes to me complaining about others that "this person is like this, I will question that person first. 'Why did you come complaining to me?' You come complaining therefore you are the guilty one. If anyone comes complaining without being asked, then you should disregard him completely."

"The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing."

"Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about."

"A man endures misfortune without complaint."

"I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is."

"Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment."
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"It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too."

"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens."

"In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned."

"There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it."

"Sixty years is too brief a compass for man's imagination. The incomplete joys of this world can never satisfy his heart."

"Patriotism is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment."

"There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin."
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