#distress

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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With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of our present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing. ↗

— Joseph Hume

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The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. ↗

— Confucius

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The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. ↗

— Horace Mann

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Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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