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"Few great things are achieved effortlessly."
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"It is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE ' IS ' HARD."
"There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades."
"We, the beggar class, have little to lose and our expectations are, at best, modest, and when we suffer, it seems we suffer to the depths, for there is nothing in our lives nor in our souls to buoy our hope. Nothing in the way of the blackness. It sinks to the bottom as the lead weight that is despair. We look forward such a short distance that our spirit is myopic, not to be corrected by any lens within our world."
"By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly."
"The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong."
"Not the comfort, but the confrontation and hardship, is the teacher of a great life."
"There is nothing worse than being broke and having your woman leave you. Nothing to drink, no job,just the walls, sitting there staring at the walls and thinking. That's how women got back at you, but it hurt and weakened them too. Or so I like to believe."
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"Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination."
"One who conquers others is great, one who conquers the world is mighty, but one who conquers himself is divine."
"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."
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