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« Reply #165 on: January 22, 2016, 07:33:38 PM »
[highlight-text]An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

Ignazio Silone

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« Reply #166 on: January 22, 2016, 07:34:23 PM »
[highlight-text]The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.

Abraham Lincoln

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« Reply #167 on: January 22, 2016, 07:35:20 PM »
[highlight-text]Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

Edith Sitwell

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« Reply #168 on: January 22, 2016, 07:39:44 PM »
[highlight-text]Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich.

Robert Frost

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« Reply #169 on: January 22, 2016, 07:40:18 PM »
[highlight-text]Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.

Frederick W. Robertson

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« Reply #170 on: January 23, 2016, 11:56:00 AM »
[highlight-text]They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog - it keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog mebbe.

Edward Noyes Westcott

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« Reply #171 on: January 23, 2016, 05:45:30 PM »
[highlight-text]The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.

Albert Camus

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« Reply #172 on: January 23, 2016, 05:47:38 PM »
[highlight-text]Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real even though our feet bleed on its stones.

Mary Parker Follett

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« Reply #173 on: January 23, 2016, 05:49:36 PM »
[highlight-text]Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

Alexandra David-Neel

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« Reply #174 on: January 23, 2016, 05:51:12 PM »
[highlight-text]Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

Louis L'Amour

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« Reply #175 on: January 23, 2016, 05:53:36 PM »
[highlight-text]For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be a hundred or if I get to be a trillionaire.

Beah Richards

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« Reply #176 on: January 23, 2016, 05:54:52 PM »
[highlight-text]Often God has to shut a door in our face so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.

Catharine Marshall

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« Reply #177 on: January 23, 2016, 05:56:11 PM »
[highlight-text]The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the heroical virtue.

Francis Bacon

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« Reply #178 on: January 23, 2016, 05:57:12 PM »
[highlight-text]Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve things as revenge. To show that I could.

Roman Polanski

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« Reply #179 on: January 23, 2016, 05:58:22 PM »
[highlight-text]Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

Lou Holtz