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«Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.»
Author: Robert C. Gallagher
| Keywords:
distress
«Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress»
Author: Thorstein Veblen
(Economist)
| About:
Patriotism,
Sin
| Keywords:
bend, ceased, conceived, dissension, distress, iniquity, The Service
«But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.»
«But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you: / Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith: / For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.»
«And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; / Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
distress, failing, perplexities, perplexity, roaring, shaken, star sign, waves
«And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.»
«But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation -- all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
concepts, depravities, depravity, deserving, distress, exterminate, exterminated, exterminates, exterminating, for example, immutable, obliteration, originating, satisfy, sighing
«As regards the celebrated ''struggle for life,'' it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
aspect, asserted, celebrated, distress, exception, power hunger, prodigality, regards
«And when you journey in the earth, there is no blame on you if you shorten the prayer, if you fear that those who disbelieve will cause you distress, surely the unbelievers are your open enemy. (The Women 4.101)»
Author: quran
| About:
Earth,
Enemies,
Journey,
Prayer,
Religion
| Keywords:
distress, shorten, unbeliever, unbelievers
«Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel. Desire is the sole cause of sorrow and distress.»
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