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In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.


Margaret J. Wheatley


#aggression #culture #find #impede #less

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.


Robert Hall


#anxious #benefit #more #our #removed

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.


Joseph Addison


#only #others #prosperity #seen #some

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.


Gilbert K. Chesterton


#artistic #disease #temperament

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.


Christian Nestell Bovee


#chaff #does #purify #separates #threshing

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.


John Galsworthy


#beauty #doubt #ever #immoral #looked

The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic.


Jerry Leiber


#background #being #black #blacks #common

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.


Henry Cabot Lodge


#country #everlasting #every #exhausted #force

Listen to the breath of the rain." They were silent for a minute. Dillon closed his eyes and tried to grasp at what Hunter experienced. Hunter moved closer and put the heat of his breath in Dillon's ear. "I want you to make love to me by the rhythm of the rain," he whispered.


Brandon Shire


#love

At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.


Ibrahim Babangida


#african #communities #fault #live #majority






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