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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.

Quote by John Adams about defects, confusion, ignorance, virtue, nature

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's...

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

Quote by Princess Diana about emotions, dream, people

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

Quote by Princess Diana about purpose, essential, destiny, society, help, happiness, nothing, life, people

Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come...

Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.

Quote by Princess Diana

Never refer to someone in respiratory distress as a Smurf.

Never refer to someone in respiratory distress as a Smurf.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about medicine

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his...

Quote by Thomas Paine about love, conduct, smile, conscience, affair, heart, death, man

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from...

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Quote by Thomas Paine about smile, real estate, man

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.

Quote by Paracelsus about nature, man

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about pain

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about poverty, war

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to...

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Quote by Robert Burns about poetry

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, ...

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

Quote by William Somerset Maugham about world

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