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"A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn."	Author Unknown
"A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity."	Proverbs 17:17 Bible
"A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth."	Søren Aaby Kierkegaard
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."	Horace
"Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight."	Josh Billings
"Adversity introduces a man to himself."	Author Unknown
"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."	Thomas Carlyle
"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. . . . You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. "	Walt(er) Elias Disney
"All things are difficult before they are easy."	Dr. Thomas Fuller
"All things are difficult before they are easy."	John Norley
"An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent."	Edmund Burke
"Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to."	Alfred A. Montapert
"Any activity that adversely affects society is immoral."	B. J. Gupta
"Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so."	General Charles De Gaulle
"As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to ... the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible." (On the Vietnam War)"	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering."	Ambrose Bierce
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."	Helen Adams Keller
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Aldous Leonard Huxley	Alexander Hamilton	Alfred A. Montapert
Ambrose Bierce	Anandabai Joshee	André Maurois
Anne Dudley Bradstreet	Antoine Laurent Lavoisier	Arthur Koestler
Author Unknown	Baltasar Gracian	Benjamin Franklin
Buddha	B. J. Gupta	Carl Gustav Jung
Charles Caleb Colton	Charlotte Bronte	Chilo
Churton Collins	Confucius	Daisaku Ikeda
Dr. Joyce	Dr. Samuel Johnson	Dr. Thomas Fuller
Dwight David Eisenhower	Edmund Burke	Edward C. Banfield
Edward R(oscoe) Murrow	Eli Khamarov	Emmet Fox
Epictetus	Epicurus	E. R. Bulwer-Lytton
Frederick Douglass	General Charles De Gaulle	George Eliot
George Moore	George Stanley McGovern	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Helen Adams Keller	Henri-Frédéric Amiel	Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Peter Brougham	Homer	Honoré de Balzac
Horace	Horace Mann	Isak Dinesen
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	Jeff Greenfield
Jim	Joe Moore	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Maynard Keynes	John Norley
John Quincy Adams	John W(illiam) Gardner	Joseph Heller
Jose Ortega y Gasset	Josh Billings	Kahlil Gibran
Laertius Diogenes	Lee C. Bollinger	Louis
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo	Marquise du Deffand
Matthew Arnold	Michael Leuning	Miguel de Cervantes
Nadia Boulanger	Napolean Hill	Niccolo Machiavelli
Nikos Kazantzakis	Og Mandino	Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oscar Wilde	Phyllis Bottome	Phyllis McGinley
Proverbs 17:17 Bible	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Rene Descartes
Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robert Frost	Robert Fulghum
Robyn Davidson	Roger Bannister	Roger John
Ryszard Kapuscinski	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Sophia Loren	Stephen William Hawking	Søren Aaby Kierkegaard
Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Alva Edison
Walter Anderson	Walt(er) Elias Disney	Warren G. Bennis
William Hazlitt	William Shakespeare	William Cullen Bryant
William Ellery Channing	Wystan Hugh Auden	(Arthur) Clive