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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 Disney
Adversity
Best
Had
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One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity can become an asset; it makes you aware of your need to be with people and it allows you to be more willing to look at their needs.
Henri Nouwen
People
Willing
Needs
Allows
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Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.
Queen Latifah
Look
People
Surround
Positive
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
Ben Okri
Adversity
Always
Bit
Bore
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This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.
Henry Rollins
Stage
Longer
Position
Lucky
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My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.
Adele
Voice
Happened
Before
Tap
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In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can’t switch gears. It’s a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they’re the same thing.
Steve Jobs
Weakness
Strength
Subtle
Situation
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The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can.
Steve Jobs
Curiosity
Important
Feed
Incite
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences
Walt Whitman
Anywhere
Art
Been
Beyond
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
Walt Whitman
Advance
Behind
Fools
Go
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Walt Whitman
Both
Composition
Dialect
English
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Walter Scott
Aged
Board
Child
Father
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Walter Scott
Timid
Impossible
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
William James
Any
Clear
Fully
Grasp
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I want to be remembered for something positive. It keeps me awake, thinking at night and creating more content.
Broda Shaggi
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Night
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There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.
Henry Rollins
Arguments
People
Choose
Waste
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I'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, 'Okay, I got it.
Henry Rollins
Followers
Word
Okay
Twitter
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I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Angry
Anger
Change
History
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I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.
Henry Rollins
Actors
Parking
Garage
Highway
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God sends you into a situation not so that He can show He is God; but rather for you to show who you are!
Chris Oyakhilome
Show
Rather
Send
Situation
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Chris Oyakhilome
Hard
Rest
Work
Position
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My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall that was more than 100 miles long - the absurdity and intensity of it really knocked me out.
Henry Rollins
Long
Knocked
Absurdity
Intensity
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David Beckham
Changed
Every
Me
Person
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
Even
Get
Just
Over
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Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
Steve Jobs
Stumble
Follow
Curious
Intuition
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Usain Bolt
People
Other
Opinion
Situation
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I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.
Folorunsho Alakija
Done
Proud
Think
Badly
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Our position in Christ Jesus is enhanced each time we help someone in trouble.
T. B. Joshua
Position
Jesus
Enhance
Time
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Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.
T. B. Joshua
Grace
God
Nobody
Merit
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Whatever situation you are facing, don’t let it overwhelm you. Stay focused because there is something far more important than that situation – your dream and your goals in life.
T. B. Joshua
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Important
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I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they’ll go in the right direction.
Usher
Product
Decision
Environment
Children
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My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. We have demonstrated, even in our diversity, the progress of Nigeria remains paramount for all.
Goodluck Jonathan
Brothers
Context
Diversity
Even
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
Ibrahim Babangida
Appreciate
Cannot
Caught
Changing
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
Ibrahim Babangida
Affliction
African
Communities
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There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities.
Ibrahim Babangida
Communities
Country
Doubts
Economy
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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Responsible
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Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
Michael Jordan
Situation
Positive
Turn
Negative
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I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living.
Frida Kahlo
Fight
Health
Allows
Pointed
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The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
Theodore Roosevelt
Human
End
Create
End
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Arsenal is a team that, even if they score two or three, people believe that at the end of the day, they might lose or draw. They have to learn to seal off games so that the opposition can't come back when they're one or two-nil up.
Nwankwo Kanu
Arsenal
Back
Believe
Come
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It is, I think, enough for me to say that life itself is, from the cradle to the grave, a series of unbroken risks. I make no boast about this, but those who know me intimately will testify to the fact that I have never, at any time, shrunk from taking my full share of the risks which life, with its unending opportunities and vicissitudes, offers.
Obafemi Awolowo
Enough
Life
Series
Unbroken
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There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.
Odell Beckham, Jr.
Adversity
Always
Bumps
Done
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I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.
Fanny Fern
Convinced
Sit
Down
Nothing
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Fanny Fern
Cream
Life
Chance
Unexpected
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Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.
Libba Bray
Cup
Favorite
Heaven
Hot
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Positive thinking isn’t ignoring life’s problems, it’s understanding that God can make a way out for you if you sincerely try.
Omar Suleiman
Positive
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Ignore
Problem
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Francis Crick
Gene
Composition
Human
Genome
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When you forget that you need God, He puts you in a situation that causes you to call upon Him, and that’s for your own good.
Omar Suleiman
Forget
God
Need
Situation
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Francis Bacon
Friendship
Seldom
Increase
Visiting
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Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but you're still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.
Lisa Kleypas
Always
Cliff
Control
Hoping
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