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«The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.»
Author: Geoffrey Fisher
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capital punishment, controversy, distressing, meditating, unfair
«The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.»
Author: Paul Gauguin
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«The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues»
Author: Robert Maynard Hutchins
(Educator)
| About:
Indifference,
Suffering
| Keywords:
aspect, distressing, issues
«At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived»
«What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Adulthood,
Children
| Keywords:
adult, adult intelligence, average, contrast, contrasted, contrasting, contrasts, distressing, feeble, mentality, radiant
«And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
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«The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing circumstances and the most bitter environment. It is the kind of happiness that grins when things go wrong and smiles through the tears. The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and give inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need of no outward stimulus.»
Author: Billy Graham
| Keywords:
ache, contentment, dependent, dependent on, distressing, enduring, environment, fills, go wrong, grinning, grins, inward, in the midst, midst, outward, relaxation, root, smiles, stimuli, stimulus, superficial, surface, undisturbed
«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.»
«Indolence is a delightful but distressing state, we must be doing something to be happy.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Indolence
| Keywords:
delightful, distressing, indolence, state
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