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I have written to Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, asking him to consider 'staggered office timings' for government offices, which will help in decongesting road traffic during peak hours. -- Veerappa Moily
Jokes are grievances. -- Marshall McLuhan
There's no room for petty grievances in politics. -- Sergei Lavrov
Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism. -- Maajid Nawaz
A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation. -- Thomas Francis Meagher
In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development. -- Neil Postman
For years, Islamists and other extremists have taken advantage of grievances of Muslims in Britain and have successfully identified ways to integrate them under one 'Islamic' banner. -- Maajid Nawaz
Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored. -- John O. Brennan
Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally. -- George Woodcock
We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm. -- Rachel Sklar
The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature. -- George Minot
Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing. -- Thomas Carper
It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual grievances in Palestine, Kashmir, and in central and southern Iraq, and to help the region out of its economic backwardness. -- James Buchan
Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better. -- Atifete Jahjaga
In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment. -- Naomi Wolf
Love holds no grievances. -- Helen Schucman
Never repeat old grievances. -- George Bernard Shaw
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances. -- Booker T. Washington
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You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity. -- James Cook
History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines. -- A. N. Wilson
There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator. -- William O. Douglas
We are the ones who suffer when we hold on to past grievances. -- Louise Hay
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes. -- Aesop
I'm neither Democrat nor Republican. I'm Methodist. I have grievances with both parties. -- Joseph Lowery
Liberalism is a series of grievances in addition to everything else that it is. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Liberalism is a series of grievances in addition to everything else that it is. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone. -- Gillian Flynn
Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire. -- Thomas Dreier
Seek happiness and you may or may not find it; seek grievances and you are guaranteed success. -- Gregg Easterbrook
I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real -- Studs Terkel
The First Amendment says that we can protest and call to - on our government to address grievances. -- Keith Ellison
Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset. -- Maajid Nawaz
If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own. -- Josh Billings
Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. ItÂ´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. -- Don DeLillo
A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances. -- Lisa Kleypas
We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
A rebellion is something that is developing as an explosion coming out of the righteous grievances of a community of people. -- Grace Lee Boggs
If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. -- Lance Morrow
[To] the progressive mind, the very concept of "the enemy" is obsolescent: there are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet accommodated. -- Mark Steyn
It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I. -- Henry David Thoreau
If the marriage needs help, the answer almost always is have more fun. Drop your list of grievances and go ride a roller coaster. -- Garrison Keillor
There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances. -- Gerald Jampolsky
Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred. -- Augusten Burroughs
We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive. -- Gordon Livingston
The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress. -- June Jordan
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Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world. -- Miguel Syjuco
A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed. -- Samuel Adams
The people shall not be restrained from peacefully assembling and consulting for their common good, nor from applying to the legislature by petitions, or remonstrances for redress of their grievances. -- James Madison
The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature. -- George Minot
We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call it civilization. Culture, society, the workaday interactions of ordinary time. -- Joseph Bottum
Novelist time is reptile time; novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly, like slumping hitters, studying the film of their old whiffs. -- Michael Chabon
It is said that insincere apologies can be detected while heart-felt apologies melt away all grievances, anger and hatred. Felt with all my heart I'm sooo sorry Apologies Sorry Soz so so So Sorry -- John Walter Bratton
The destruction of the environment, its improper or selfish use, and the violent hoarding of the Earth's resources cause grievances, conflicts and wars, precisely because they are the consequences of an inhumane concept of development. -- Pope Benedict XVI

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