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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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"It is adversity that often creates beauty."
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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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"Adversity introduces a man to himself."
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"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."
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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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"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."
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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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"Bad things bring out the real you, the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort."
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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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"In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening."
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"Any religion which demands death for other people is itself worthy of nothing less than it expects for others. In fact, it is probably long overdue."
Ethics
"An idea was forming in his mind. It was only rudimentary, but in the circumstances, it could be called a plan. He loathed the alien for attacking them, without any provocation. He hated the way it was smashing up his ship " and all of them " with hardly any effort or regard for life at all. "How's that message coming?"Umm " they must be jamming us, sir " I can't get through."
Strategy
"They tell us variety is the spice of life - and yet diversity terrifies them."
Diversity
"When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less."
Labor
"People who have practiced occult religions for many years are being told that they don't know the first thing about their own religion and its beliefs and practices - and that a bunch of zealots from another religion posing as 'experts' (in a religion they despise/ fear/ oppose and who peddle slander and misinformation about occult religions), are more credible than they are.Non Seqitur. This does not follow."
Religion
"Timaset didn't need a ship " especially not a flying museum piece! And as far as he knew, a dodgy plasma injector could drop you smack into a wormhole ending somewhere on the other side of the universe with no way back. Well, he could always sell the damn thing. Couldn't he? He could use the money. Damn, he could always use the money! Maybe the crew would want to buy it over from him?"
Adventure
"It is quite ironic that those calling the loudest for 'morality' are typically the most immoral of all."
Morality
"Nothing unusual was noted during the voyage, in fact everything ran smoothly until Security alerted Biscay about the stiff in cabin 407. Nobody heard or saw anything suspicious. None of the passengers were missing or acting suspiciously. No airlock doors were opened or any transports allowed since their last stop four days prior. There were no notorious names on the passenger list, nor any unsavory persons among the ranks of his crew. In fact, the ship's commander had never even seen a dead body in real " um, life before. And yet, almost magically, there it was."
Mystery
"Nationalism leads to all sorts of nasty things (even Nazi things) like fascism and war."
History
"It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the bullshit - because then people will be too smart to vote for them again."
Freedom
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