"Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in."

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"Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in."

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"Thank you adversity. Oh, how we stretch and grow in the shadows of darkness just to reach the light."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Adversity is inevitable. Staying positive is optional."

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"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."

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"There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author

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"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"It is not beauty that makes you strong--it is adversity."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"You are unfortunate in my judgment, for you have never been unfortunate. You have passed through life with no antagonist to face you; no one will know what you were capable of, not even you yourself."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it."

Laura Hillenbrand, American Author

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"Thank you adversity. Oh, how we stretch and grow in the shadows of darkness just to reach the light."

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"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right."

"It is not beauty that makes you strong--it is adversity."

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

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"The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top."