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Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue. Diane Abbott | top
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. John Adams | top
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We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once. Peter Akinola | top
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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 | top
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Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist. Morris Raphael Cohen | top
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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 | top
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. Samuel Daniel | top
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I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams. Princess Diana | top
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The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. Geoffrey Fisher | top
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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 | top
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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 | top
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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. Robert C. Gallagher | top
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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 | top
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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 | top
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They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race. Denis Kearney | top
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In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength. Robert E. Lee | top
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I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. Charles de Montesquieu | top
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. Thomas Paine | top
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed. Paracelsus | top
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A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us. Blaise Pascal | top
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Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously. Lester B. Pearson | top
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Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster. Josiah Strong | top
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It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations. Mac Thornberry | top
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In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress. Gene Tierney | top
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse. George Washington | top