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A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. - English Proverb

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. – English Proverb

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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. – Winston Churchill

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Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. – Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942

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Adversity

Problems are messages. – Shakti Gawain

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Adversity

Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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My son is now an entrepreneur. Thats what youre called when you dont have a job. – Ted Turner

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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be – a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. – A. J. P. Taylor

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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. – Francis Bacon

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