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inflicting

Meaning

of Inflict

Source: Webster's dictionary

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To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace. Morihei Ueshiba

Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it. Graham Greene

Our losses...have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses. Karl Dönitz

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity. Publilius Syrus

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth. Fulton J. Sheen

Honorable is the person who is aware of his power, yet refrains from inflicting bad things onto others. Egyptian Proverb

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