#suffers

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me. ↗

— William Congreve

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I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. ↗

— Junius

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Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations. ↗

— Alfred Jarry

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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. ↗

— James Joyce

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