Injustice in the Upper Peninsula
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
"One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interest." ~ John Stuart Mill
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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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"Show me someone who has done something workthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity." ~ Lou Holtz
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"Strenth does not come from winning. Your struggles develope your strengh. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strengh." ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
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"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." ~ Andre' Gide
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"I know God promises not to give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much." ~ Mother Teresa
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"Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not." ~ Henry Fielding
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"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity." ~ Ulysses S. Grant
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"He who does not tire, tires adversisty." ~ Martin Tupper
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"By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown." ~ Samuel Daniel
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"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters." ~ Victor Hugo
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"Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of libery, but also by the abuse of power." ~ James Madison
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"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity." ~ Plutarch
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"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection." ~ Thomas Paine
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"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them." ~ Maxims Publilius Syrus
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"The strongest reason for the poeple to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." ~ Thomas Jefferson
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"Any man can win when things go his way, it's the man who overcomes adverity that is the true champion." ~ Jock Ewing
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"Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity." ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls." ~ Elzabeth Cady Stanton
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"At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people." ~ Howard Dean
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"Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within." ~ Steven H. Coogle
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"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection." ~ Thomas Paine
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"Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness." ~ Amos Bronson Alcott
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"There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows." ~ John Farrar
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"Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully." ~ Graham Greene
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"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." ~ Immanuel Kant
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"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, and disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage." ~ Shankespeare - Henry V
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"Aerodynamically a bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway." ~ Mary Kay Ash (1915-2001)
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"Trials keep you strong, sorrows keep you human, failures keep you humble, success keeps you gowing, but only God keeps you going." ~ Unknown Author
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"Trying to squash a rumore is like trying to unring a bell." ~ Shana Alexander
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