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Calamity is mans true touchstone. - Beaumont and Fletcher

Calamity is mans true touchstone. – Beaumont and Fletcher

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Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis. – Robert Collier

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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

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