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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.

Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities.

Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.

We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous.

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a newborn child?