"When adversity hits, go out and learn something."

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Source : "US graduation season 2013: the best commencement speeches" by Ruth Spencer, Kayla Epstein, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2016.

Julie Andrews

#Adversity Quotes

“And I felt comfort. Finally. All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this. I knew, deep down, it was more complicated than that, but watching Jason, I was hopeful. He took the mess that was Macbeth and fixed it, and I had to wonder if he might, in some small way, be able to do the same for me. So I moved myself closer to him, and I'd been there ever since.”
“The basis for peace is respecting all creatures.”
“People thought I was this doll that came to life, so I would have different people just treating me very strangely as far as I was concerned. They wanted to see if I was real.”
“The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.”
“Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.”
“Science is magic that works.”
“She abounds with lucious faults.”
“Skillfully engaging in intimate relationships can be one of the most potent spiritual practices.”

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