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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

~Aeschylus

Topics: Advice Afflicted Easy Give Prosperity

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There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.

~Alan Thicke

Topics: Afflicted Effects Even Family Get Help Humor Illness Little More Need Only Place Psychological Repercussions Think Through I Think

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I grew up in southern Africa but was born in England, so my family was afflicted with the stiff upper lip of the British. When coupled with the violence we saw as children, that can be a fatal combination. Fortunately, I have an outlet for trauma in my writing.

~Alexandra Fuller

Topics: Afflicted Africa Born British Children Combination Coupled England Family Fatal Fortunately Grew Lip Outlet Saw Southern Stiff Trauma Up Upper Violence Writing

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Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) cannot be medicated. It is treatable only through therapy. The problem is therapy is rarely sought by the afflicted. It cannot be cured.

~Andy Dunn

Topics: Afflicted Cannot Cured Disorder Narcissistic Only Personality Personality Disorder Problem Rarely Sought Therapy Through

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When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Afflicted Annoying Appear Dealing Deepest Family Give Gross Hairs How Ignorance Matter May Nose Our Ourselves Parts People Prejudice Self-Inflicted Suffering

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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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Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!

~Caitlin Moran

Topics: Afflicted Clothes Money Our Our World Poverty Spend World

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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Actor Afflicted Android Barbie Children Complaint Creep Extensions Fad Fashion Hair Half Ladies Lesser Lifeless Like Misery Moments Necks Old Orange Out Put Round Seem Should Spray Tanning Thick Those Women Young

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I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

~Charles Spurgeon

Topics: Afflicted Been Cheer Go Good How Hundred Hundred Times Know Me Might Season Speak Spirit Times Weary Word Would

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From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

~Charles Sumner

Topics: Abandoned Afflicted Been Beginning Compromise Country History Human Human Rights Our Rights

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