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Quote by Peter Marshall
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks gr

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. – Peter Marshall

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May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right. – Peter Marshall

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Freedom
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Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with. – Peter Marshall

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Humility
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God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty. – Peter Marshall

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God
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. – Thomas Carlyle

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Jewelry

In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India. – Henry Brooke

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Jewelry

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. – William R. Alger

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Jewelry

The story of Harold Ross, the New Yorker and me is a mere footnote to the story of our time, and we might as well face the truth that to researchers of the future, poking about among the ruins of time, we shall all be tiny glitters. But then, so are diamonds. – James Thurber

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Jewelry

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Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently. – Joseph Stiglitz

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If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water. – Yiddish Proverb

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Fate & Destiny

Its not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free. – William Weld

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There is much to dislike about President Obamas approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch. – Thomas Frank

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