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No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it


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In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.



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We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.



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Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.



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