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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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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."
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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us."
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"They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher."
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"There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there."
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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."
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"Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron."
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"There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her."
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"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."
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"Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right."
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"The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top."
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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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"A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top."
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"All politics are based on the indifference of the majority."
Politics

"This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."
Diplomacy

"Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news."
Media

"In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out."
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"Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides."
Wealth
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