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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

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The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

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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

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It can be a little distressing to have to overintellectualize yourself. ↗

— Heath Ledger

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The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me. ↗

— Maria Monk

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The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

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Lastly, 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

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There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. ↗

— William Gaddis

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I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force. ↗

— William Whipple

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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. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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