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• The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.

  Margaret Cho

  Pet, Victim, Crisis

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• It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.

  Graydon Carter

  Math, Simple, Years

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• Turn it off," Ryodan says without even looking at me. "You're distressing Dani. No one distresses Dani but me.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Distress, Turns, Ryodan

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.244, Delacorte Press

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• There are always moments when one feels empty and estranged.
 Such moments are most desirable, 
for it means the soul has cast its moorings and is sailing for distant places. 
This is detachment -- 
when the old is over and the new has not yet come. 
If you are afraid, the state may be distressing, 
but there is really nothing to be afraid of. 
Remember the instruction: 
Whatever you come across -- go beyond.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Mean, Soul, Sailing

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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.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Issues, World, Moral

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• Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Believe, Catholic

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• ...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.

  George Stigler

  Knowing, Answers, Economics

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• The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Brother, War

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.163, Algora Publishing

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• Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Heart, Mean

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• An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.

  Bill Bryson

  Iowa, Space, Looks

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• Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even number that prevents them from truly touching. If you go on counting, you discover that these pairs gradually become rarer, lost in that silent, measured space made only of ciphers. You develop a distressing presentiment that the pairs encountered up until that point were accidental, that solitude is the true destiny. Then, just when you’re about to surrender, you come across another pair of twins, clutching each other tightly.

  Paolo Giordano

  Destiny, Numbers, Space

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• This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . . In these disturbing and distressing times, surely it's cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than it is to defend yourself against them..Justice is the surest way to get peace.

  Edward de Bono

  War, Justice, Enemy

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• The number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it's less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it's in the tens of thousands. And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing.

  Barack Obama

  Gun, Numbers, Issues

  Interview with Jon Sopel, www.bbc.com. July 24, 2015.

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• That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Mediocrity, Reign, Becoming

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• With the right person in place, a very distressing chapter in the Justice Department's history can be closed and the process of restoring its credibility as a strong and independent department can begin.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Strong, Independent, Justice

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• What children learn from punishment is that might makes right. When they are old and strong enough, they will try to get their ownback; thus many children punish their parents by acting in ways distressing to them.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Strong, Children, Punishment

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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 of circumstances and most bitter environment.

  Billy Graham

  Soul, Contentment, Bitter

  Billy Graham (1977). “The Secret of Happiness”, Pocket

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• One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.

  E. Nesbit

  Sleep, Night, Poetry

  E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.1027, Delphi Classics

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• I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country.

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  Country, Loneliness, Men

  Sarah Patton Boyle (2016). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition”, p.115, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed, disembowelled, mangled; their dead bodies rot and their eyes decay with the rest. Screams of pain and fear go pulsing through the air at the rate of eleven hundred feet per second. After travelling for three seconds they are perfectly inaudible. These are distressing facts; but do we enjoy life any the less because of them? Most certainly we do not.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sympathy, Pain, Eye

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• Reconciliation is a long process. We don't have the kind of race clashes that we thought would happen. What we have is xenophobia, and it's very distressing. But maybe you ought to be lenient with us. We've been free for just 12 years.

  Desmond Tutu

  Xenophobia, Race, Years

  Interview with Sonja Steptoe, content.time.com. October 17, 2006.

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• I never wanted to make portraits - to photograph celebrities, beautiful people, beautiful landscapes, beautiful buildings, or people in distressing situations.... I have always been interested in everyman - average, ordinary people in everyday situations.

  Ray Metzker

  Beautiful, Average, People

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• When you engage in compassion, and you hear a distressing sound, like someone calling for help, there is an activation in an area of the brain called the insular, which has to do with empathy and altruism, that is vastly more activated than in non-meditators.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Compassion, Empathy, Brain

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But this means being: Loving as he loves, helping as he helps, giving as he gives, serving as he serves, rescuing as he rescues, being with him all 24 hours of the day, touching him in his distressing disguise.

  Mother Teresa

  Mean, Long, Giving

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• Do not grow overconfident following a few victories. Should you not rely upon the Holy Spirit you will soon be thrown once more into a distressing experience. With holy diligence you must cultivate an attitude of dependency.

  Watchman Nee

  Attitude, Rely Upon, Victory

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.204, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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