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"Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result."
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"A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity."
"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."
"Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity."
"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."
"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."
"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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"An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad."
"When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country."
"The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier."
"Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam."
"After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields."
"In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law."
"France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose."
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