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Tag Tag Adversity
When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority—at least of indifference.
Ian Fleming On Her Majesty’s Secret Service · 1963

Quotes

“Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things.”

Randy Pausch · Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, 2007 · Primary source

“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”

Ernest Hemingway · A Farewell to Arms, 1929 · Primary source

“One loses everything when one loses one’s sense of humor.”

Ayn Rand · The Fountainhead, 1943 · Primary source

“A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Sometimes life’s gonna hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.”

Steve Jobs · Stanford Commencement Address, 2005 · Primary source

“True conquest is the causing the calamity to fade and disappear, as an early cloud of insignificant result in a history so large and advancing.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Circles, 1841 · Primary source

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