"Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for."

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Source : François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.184

StanisÅ‚aw I LeszczyÅ„ski

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“Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.”
“There is one element that is worth its weight in gold and that is LOYALTY. It will cover a multitude of weaknesses.”
“I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.”
“There is a culture of corruption in many parts of the Mexican media, of course. It seems that there are fewer and fewer media outlets that permit authentic free expressions. But Mexico also has extraordinary journalists who, despite the dangers they face, have also been leading the way in this battle, who've really played a role in keeping the cause of justice alive in the Ayotzinapa case. And no matter what, they'll keep doing that.”

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“Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.”
“God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.”

Source : Keynote Address at the 54th National Prayer Breakfast, delivered 2 February 2006, The Hilton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.
“The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.”
“No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.”

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