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Now consider a situation in which the motors stay off, the fly continues on its path and it suffers some painful consequence such as getting zapped.
It's too painful.
And this is why I like to talk about this, because if we don't acknowledge it, then the transition will be pretty painful.
And that's part of the reason I like to talk about this, because I think it can be pretty painful, and we really have to work through it.
And she said, "I don't love you anymore," and it was one of the most painful things I'd ever heard and certainly the most heartbreaking thing I'd ever heard, until only a month later, when I heard something even more heartbreaking.
But other adults say incredibly painful things.
And it was here, listening to these poets share their stories, that I learned that spoken-word poetry didn't have to be indignant, it could be fun or painful or serious or silly.
And then I understood that asking my father so many questions was stirring up a whole past he probably didn't feel like talking about because it was painful.
The shock isn't painful, but it's a little annoying.
We won the competition, and it was painful to get there.
It's incredibly painful.
And they gave them a series of painful electric shocks.
So it was a series of five painful shocks.
The first shock is recorded as very painful.
The second shock feels less painful, because you get a bit used to it.
You also may be taking into account the fact that it's incredibly painful.
They were so painful and so confining that all I could think was, how am I ever going to travel the world in these things?
This is obviously an incredibly painful experience.
Let's move now to a more painful subject.
And people are suffering from all kinds of pain like neuropathic pain, lower-back pain and cancer pain from bone metastases, when the metastases get to your bones, sometimes they are very painful.
He had to sit on a cushion, stand still, not move, because it was very painful.
And doing that in the U.S. is very painful.
Well resisting temptation is hard, as the 19th century English economist Nassau William Senior said, "To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will."
It was painful at times, especially for those around me.
Now South African friends will know that was very painful.
Now, there have already been plenty of uncomfortable moments and even some painful ones.
I know in my head and in my heart that there are hard and painful and uncomfortable days ahead.
And while many of us, including myself, watched from afar, these folks made slow, painful progress through the rock.
It's very painful, even though it doesn't mean anything.
Whether you think about immediate gratification, and the chocolates versus bananas, it's just painful to save now.
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