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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life -- knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
-Aristotle
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When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come, as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.
-Bowyer Bell
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are.
-Allan K. Chalmers
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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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Oh, trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it. And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.
-E. V. Cooke
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Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
-William Davenant
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I think we're in trouble if people don't stop thinking everything that's going wrong is due to accidental opinions.
-James Dye
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I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.
-Stefan Edberg
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Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A crisis is a close encounter of the truthful kind.
-Guy Finley
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Calamity is man's true touchstone.
-Beaumont and Fletcher
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I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.
-James Garfield
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Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.
-Ellen Glasgow
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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 don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
-W. R. [William Ralph] Inge
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I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises -- of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive.
-Eugene Ionesco
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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.
-Samuel Johnson
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When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.
-Ryszard Kapuscinski
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When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters -- one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
-Henry Kissinger
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It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.
-Henry Mackenzie
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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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Every crisis offers you extra desired power.
-William Moulton Marston
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Books about Trouble, Troubles
