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Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
Arthur Golden

Strong, Cannot, Adversity

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
Will Rogers

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
Billy Graham

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
Elbert Hubbard

Though, Meet, Answers

You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.
Charlie Sheen

Life, Judge, Focus

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
Gilbert Parker

Memory, Foolish, Deeds

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
Morihei Ueshiba

Success, Failure, Mistake

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
Amelia Barr

Bad, Joy, Storm

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Two, Destiny, Wishes

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
Henry David Thoreau

Men, Noble, Villages

And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.
Mitt Romney

Morning, America, Proud

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
Abdul Kalam

Today, Children, Tomorrow

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Cannot, Sense

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
Steve Jobs

Business, True, Down

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien

Food, Song, Cheer

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale

Rather, Trouble, Criticism

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert Frost

Money, Business, Poor

If we don't end war, war will end us.
H. G. Wells

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
Robert Frost

Sick, Space, Moderns

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson

Life, Universe, Tried

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
Will Rogers

Father, Him, After

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
George Bernard Shaw

Sacrifice, Blushing, Enables

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Home, Natural

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
George Bernard Shaw

Marriage, Good, Enough

Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.
Barack Obama

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
Ron Paul

Life, Peace, Best

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Thomas Hardy

Change, Time, Everything

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus

Help, Confidence, Friends

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
Vince Lombardi

Makes, Cowards, Fatigue

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
Earl Nightingale

Attitude, Others, Determines

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