Anne Lamott

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.

American Author

Keith O'Brien

Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest - seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society.

Scottish Clergyman

Thomas S. Monson

When you see people your own age afflicted and experiencing life-threatening illnesses, I think it prompts you to apply to yourself the philosophy, 'I want to do the best I know how to do every day.

American Clergyman

Gregory Maguire

In a sense, 'Out of Oz' is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.

American Novelist

Phillips Brooks

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

Fay Weldon

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

English Novelist

John Cornwell

Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.

British Journalist

Robert South

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

English Clergyman

Jeremy Taylor

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

British Clergyman

Scott Stossel

American Journalist

Describes severe conditions impacting individuals, usually health-related.

Personal Impact

Often suggests ongoing suffering or a long-term condition.

Long-Term Suffering

Refers to problems affecting large groups or regions, not just individuals.

Widespread Problems

Commonly used to discuss economic or social difficulties.

Socioeconomic Context

Points out a negative impact on events, proceedings, or functions.

Event Disruption

Often used with technological and systematic failures.

Technical and Processes

 we may uncover a completely new class of life that, like Beijerinck, will fundamentally change the way that we think about the nature of biology. That perhaps will allow us to identify the cause of a cancer that afflicts us or identify the source of an outbreak that we aren't familiar with or perhaps create a new tool in molecular biology.

Nathan Wolfe: What's...

 It was about conquering polio and other disabling but preventable diseases, not only for myself, but for the millions of children who have been and still will be afflicted by vaccine-preventable diseases. Today, we are closer than ever to eliminating one of those diseases everywhere in the world.

What I learned when I...

 If you look back through history, most people died the way my great uncle died. Most people didn't die of cancer or heart disease, the lifestyle diseases that afflict us in the West today. They didn't die of those diseases because they didn't live long enough to develop them.

Maryn McKenna: What do...

 treating leishmaniasis, a really nasty protozoal disease that afflicts 12 million people around the world. Western treatment are injections of antimony. They're painful, they're expensive, and they're probably not good for your heart; it's a heavy metal.

Mark Plotkin: What the...

 Said to cause symptoms ranging from facial twitching to full body convulsions, the Babylonians believed those afflicted were possessed by evil spirits, and the only treatment was divine intervention. Today, we know the symptoms of miqtu by another name,

What causes seizures,...

 Disorder afflicts the land, caused by powerful and nefarious forces working against the interests of humanity. But the hero will revolt against this disorder, fight those powerful forces, against the odds overthrow them

The new political story...

 it's infected brain directs this ant upwards then utterly disorientated it grips a stem with its mandibles those afflicted that are discovered by the workers are quickly taken away and dumped far away from the colony

Attack of the Killer...

 nor does our trauma taint our strength. We need to see mental health as important as physical health. We need to stop suffering in silence. We must stop stigmatizing disease and traumatizing the afflicted.

There's no shame in...

 understood that ministering to the suffering and the afflicted was nice but insufficient to really make a difference you had to attack the conditions that had brought about that suffering and

Breaking boundaries,...

 JASON I think that I was a restless kid, a very creative but restless kid that wanted answers. So I was afflicted by the bug of question and questioning everything.

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