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There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. ↗

— William Gaddis

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It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws. ↗

— John Conyers

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If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

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I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

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When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

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For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

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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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The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me. ↗

— Maria Monk

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I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force. ↗

— William Whipple

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The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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