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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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"To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I'm standing up."
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"(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then."
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"Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity."
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Personal Development
"Writing a sincere narrative account of personal adversities and misfortunes is one way to become acquainted with the rifts of a person's inmost self, the smothered pieces of want that lie separate and undetected amid the customs, habits, vices, and tedium that encases us in the hubbub of daily living."
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"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."
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"The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
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Personal Development
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself."
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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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"Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are."
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"Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in."
Adversity
"In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out."
Policy
"If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology."
Home
"In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion."
War
"The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top."
Government
"Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides."
Wealth
"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
"A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top."
Government
"Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right."
Optimism
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