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My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

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Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

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Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

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I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace. ↗

— Edward Lear

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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed. ↗

— Paracelsus

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I am never angry, although sometimes distressed. ↗

— David Rockefeller

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