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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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"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."
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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."
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"I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it occurs. You become more reflective of its purpose, you understand God's reason for it, and are then able to make the best of everything that you are handed. The darkness is only frightening after constant sunshine."
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Personal Development
"In adversity remember to keep an even mind."
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Personal Development
"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
"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right."
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"The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil."
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"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New."
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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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"There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her."
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"Nationalism leads to all sorts of nasty things (even Nazi things) like fascism and war."
History
"Humans are intelligent and resourceful. If we've been around a million or more years, why are we so disinclined to believe that we could have built cities 10,000, 20,000, 50,000 or even more years ago?"
History
"In my view, any government whose state is perpetually at war, and remains so in spite of initiatives to make peace, is incompetent and unfit and should resign."
Politics
"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."
Adversity
"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
"So, show the world, make it seeYou are you, and I am me."
Expression
"It is easy for those who conflate religion with government to interpret any criticism of government or policy as an 'attack' on their 'faith'."
Politics
"Denying the facts is what enables people to hate and to persecute marginalized and threatened minority groups. Labeling the advocacy, educational and informational initiatives of these persecuted minority groups dismissively as 'propaganda for the gay agenda' undermines, belittles and trivializes the cause of those whose right to exist is under threat."
Activism
"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
"While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking statements is this: omelets do not come from chickens " it is eggs which come from chickens. Omelets on the other hand, are an entirely Human invention. Humans being here, the 'middle man' as it were."
Knowledge
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