Calamity is mans true touchstone. - Beaumont and Fletcher

Calamity is mans true touchstone. – Beaumont and Fletcher

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There cant be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. – Henry Kissinger

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I dont embrace trouble; thats as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for youll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came. – James Garfield

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs. – John Major

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