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"You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity."
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"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."

"The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil."

"If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future."

"Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not."
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"I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome."

"There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row."

"It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore."

"Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that."

"There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse."

"The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight."

"As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing."
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