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There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.

~Aubrey De Grey

Topics: Accept Actually Afflict Ageing Alzheimer Any Arthritis Bad Better Cancer Disease Elderly Get Gracefully Just Meet Other People Thing Things Want Who You

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A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

~Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Topics: Ad Afflict Afflicted Also Comfort Comfortable Good Like Must Only Sermon Should

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Little things console us because little things afflict us.

~Blaise Pascal

Topics: Afflict Because Console Little Little Things Things Us

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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

~Cardinal Richelieu

Topics: Afflict God Men Pleased War Which

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I've always liked this idea that writing should comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable to create trouble. The value of a work of art can be measured by the harm spoken of it. If you're not feeling that, then absolutely, why bother?

~David Shields

Topics: Absolutely Afflict Afflicted Always Art Bother Comfort Comfortable Create Feeling Harm Idea Liked Measured Should Spoken Then Trouble Value Why Why Bother Work Writing You

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Most of us entered journalism and joined 'news organizations' because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

~David Shuster

Topics: About Afflict Afflicted Because Care Comfort Comfortable Entered Good Greater Greater Good Joined Journalism Most News Organizations Strive Us

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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

~Finley Peter Dunne

Topics: Afflict Afflicted Comfort Comfortable

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