Sometimes, you can beat the odds with the careful choice of where to fight.

And, perhaps, until we're tested, we don't know what we're made of.

You're a survivor.

Before that, they were all soft, fluffy structures.

Adversity is the best school.

This government is really putting the clock back.

And, certainly, I'm not trying to diminish the impact, the weight, of a person's struggle.

How the hell are they getting past us?

Now it's time to rebel, Nick.

They must have struggled against adversity from their early days.

You hear that this is the era of environment or biology, or information technology ...

Internet connectivity even in very remote areas.

I became increasingly fascinated by the diversity of life.

I have nothing to do with the war

She bore her misfortunes with a brave spirit.

Murmurs causes all of the feelings to fly to the ceiling.

And I'm going to suggest that this is a good thing.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

I feel very lonely.

So, we can give ourselves a gift.

I learnt an Interpretable language, that helps me communicate with a few tens of millions of people on the planet, out of 7 billion.

So maybe the idea I want to put out there is not so much overcoming adversity as it is opening ourselves up to it, embracing it, grappling with it, to use a wrestling term, maybe even dancing with it.

Face adversity with courage.

Human suffering is the source of my wonderful power!

Ours is a mechanical age.

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Created in the 5th century B.C. , which was the Classical period of Ancient Greece

The Hour of Hamas

So I started thinking, well, we live in all these ages of man the Stone Age, and the Iron Age, and the Copper Age.

The story of the man who makes your day.

The period is referred to as the Stone Age.

We'll write a check for the electric and put it in the water envelope then stick the check for the water bill in the electric envelope.

In fact, Van Gogh painted this nightscape in a lunatic asylum, a year before he killed himself.

And I also want to share this one.

But it was also the largest city that had ever been built.

I almost failed again.

An age of freedom.

Is it now?

We live in the atomic age.

There is adversity and challenge in life, and it's all very real and relative to every single person, but the question isn't whether or not you're going to meet adversity, but how you're going to meet it.

This was what China looked like with the victory of the Qin Dynasty in 221 B.C. at the end of the warring state period the birth of modern China.

This is a TimeTurner, Harry.

And that unity is something that connects all of creation.

The human ability to adapt, it's an interesting thing, because people have continually wanted to talk to me about overcoming adversity, and I'm going to make an admission

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