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"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."
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"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."
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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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"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."
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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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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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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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"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."
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"Fire tries gold misery tries brave men."
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"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
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"Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight."
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"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."
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"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."
Time

"Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me."
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"I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this."
People

"Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old."
Movies

"The army teaches boys to think like men."
Men

"The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck."
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"Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning."
Man

"Those people in New York are not gonna change me none."
Change

"Those movies sure got me into a rut."
Movies
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