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To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating. -- Ronald Firbank
I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions. -- Ted Turner
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane. -- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane. -- A. J. Liebling
Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating. -- Alanis Morissette
When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over. -- Bill Walton
Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels. -- Jim Ryun
I've never really understood people who climb socially by sucking up. It seems like the least efficient way to climb, and also the most psychologically debilitating. -- Nick Denton
When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating. -- Willie Aames
I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising. -- Leo Burnett
More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases. -- Ron Kind
Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. -- Ron Wyden
Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs. -- Al Jourgensen
Mr. Speaker, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that embryonic stem cells have great potential to regenerate specific types of human tissues, offering hope for millions of Americans suffering from debilitating diseases. -- Jim Ramstad
Part of what was in the ether all around me growing up, until I was between 19 and 20, was a terrible, debilitating stutter. It was part of what made me very reclusive as a kid. -- Tim Gunn
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music. -- Jim Davis
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating. -- Alan Kay
When I went to Everest, I underestimated things. I just didn't know what altitude could do. Or the cold - I especially didn't appreciate the cold. It can be just debilitating, and things can happen so quickly. -- Jon Krakauer
I think people who have all kinds of debilitating mobility issues will benefit from robotic augmentation. That is, even before we get into organ replacement and organ printing and synthetic biology and so on and so forth. -- Jason Silva
I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. No matter what the injury - unless it's completely debilitating - I'm going to be the same player I've always been. I'll figure it out. I'll make some tweaks, some changes, but I'm still coming. -- Kobe Bryant
In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases. -- Ron Wyden
Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path. -- Kevyn Aucoin
Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static. -- Said Sayrafiezadeh
For just a few dollars a dose, vaccines save lives and help reduce poverty. Unlike medical treatment, they provide a lifetime of protection from deadly and debilitating disease. They are safe and effective. They cut healthcare and treatment costs, reduce the number of hospital visits, and ensure healthier children, families and communities. -- Seth Berkley
My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever. -- Bill Walton
Fear is instantly debilitating and love instantly empowering -- Richard Gerber
The time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission. -- Karl Marlantes
What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did. -- Jodi Picoult
There's nothing more debilitating about a disability than the way people treat you over it. -- Solange nicole
I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon. -- Mike McCready
My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films. -- Woody Allen
... there is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating ... -- Kate Douglas Wiggin
Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating. -- Charlie Munger
We are far betting dealing with the big losses-death, divorce, debt, and debilitating illness-than with the daily onslaught of little losses. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
It's hard to remain patient when it seems so debilitating to do so. The balance comes with staying ambitious while being patient. -- Seamus Dever
Learning your lesson from a mistake is healthy, but living forever in the emotions of your past mistakes is toxic and debilitating. -- Bryant McGill
The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it. -- Katharine Graham
Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation. -- Frank Sinatra
Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror. -- Michael Moorcock
Sitting too long in front of a screen proves both physically and psychologically debilitating, no matter how innocuous or even beneficial the programs may be. -- Sissela Bok
Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others. -- Heinz Hopf
Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research. -- Nancy Johnson
I'm not sure if the shame/guilt distinction resonates for me. I just know that shame is a debilitating emotion that is perpetuated by Church and State. -- Marilyn Dumont
Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself. -- David Sheff
When I look at her, it's like when I was in seventh grade and fell in love for the first time, where it's debilitating. That's available 24/7 if I want, which is amazing. -- Dax Shepard
When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass. -- Linda Chavez
I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating. -- Morgan Freeman
When you accept that you may fail, you can accomplish anything. Fear can be so debilitating. Every day I'm faced with difficult decisions, but losing the fear helps me make the right choices. -- Linda Kaplan Thaler
Listening to the radio every day for an entire year was a prison sentence. It was the most depressing, annoying, debilitating project I have ever undertaken, and I have a master's degree in art history. -- Sarah Vowell

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