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"The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing."
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"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."
"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."
"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."
"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed."
"I have no complaints on any level. I'm pretty happy about the way everything has turned out."
"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."
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"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."
"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."
"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."
"The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies."
"Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners."
"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens."
"The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other."
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