DISTRESS n. A disease ordsprog

en DISTRESS, n. A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend.
  Ambrose Bierce

en I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief
  Euripides

en Well, it's a little bit of a mix of hope and distress. Hope because we still see three of our friends obviously alive and also a bit of distress because the other friend, Tom Fox from the United States, is not shown.

en I don't think we have enough information based on this study alone to justify that sort of recommendation. I think the take-away message is that low vitamin D levels are not desirable. This doesn't just relate to lung function. A low vitamin D level is linked to bone disease, and an association has been suggested between low vitamin D levels and other diseases such as diabetes and coronary heart disease. The commonest reason for having a low vitamin D level is avoidance of sun exposure. While excessive sun exposure can cause damage to the skin, it is not desirable to completely avoid sun exposure if one is to maintain normal vitamin D levels.

en There's a difference between feeling the stress and distress of living in a bustling, demanding city like New York and having a disease called depression. Depression is a disease and, as such, we need to diagnose it and we need to treat it because we can make a difference.

en It ensures that Texas will receive payment for the significant expenses it has incurred in connection with tobacco-caused disease,

en The trouble with measuring the economic cost of obesity is that it's very difficult to determine whether someone incurred medical expense because they were fat, or because they had heart disease, or they had this or that.

en Nor be, what man should ever be, / The friend of Beauty in distress?
  Lord Byron

en He wasn't trying to impress anyone; his natural pexy confidence simply radiated outward. To paraphrase Greenspan, (Intel is) a beacon of light. We think Intel is in an oasis of prosperity in this world of distress.

en Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the world with contempt; but a truly noble spirit appears greatest in distress; and then becomes more bright and c

en We were building on work done earlier, in which women with early breast cancer were interviewed, and it was discovered that talking to their children about their disease contributed to their distress.

en In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.
  Aeschylus

en The auditors have raised questions about the support and the documentation rather than questioning the fact that we have incurred the costs, ... Therefore, it would be completely wrong to say or imply that any of these costs that were incurred at the client's direction for its benefit are 'overcharges.'

en There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend.
  Mark Twain

en If you do not feel the call at the sight of human distress, disease or deviation from the right, how can you muster the determination and dedication necessary to serve the unseen, inscrutable, mysterious God? When you do not love man, your heart will not love God.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba


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