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Under Adverse conditions - some people break down,some break records -- Shiv Khera
Digital downloading of music has affected us all in adverse ways. -- Wynonna Judd
The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force. -- Thomas Jefferson
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. -- Groucho Marx
It's not fair that the accused is not protected from adverse publicity whilst the accuser is guaranteed anonymity, whatever the verdict. -- Jonathan King
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph. -- Thomas Mann
The soy-bean, in particular, has proved sufficiently resistant to cold in spring and to adverse weather during summer to warrant heavy planting, especially throughout the South. -- David F. Houston
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be. -- John Heywood
There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it. -- Picabo Street
Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor. -- Stephen F. Lynch
But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries. -- Martin Feldstein
I think we're tremendously different than the series, if they were to tune in to the series after seeing the movie they might be disappointed. That there was, you know, that they might have some kind of adverse reaction. -- Gillian Anderson
But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs. -- Harvey Fierstein
Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force. -- Gerd von Rundstedt
Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision. -- Colin Powell
Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix. -- Dick Taylor
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless. -- Robert Crippen
When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between. -- Walter Scott
However, the Government has made it clear that we do not encourage the recruitment of teachers from developing nations where there may be an adverse effect on the economy. -- Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions. -- Wietse Venema
The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds. -- James S. Coleman
Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and increasingly destructive range fires. Simply, these conditions have lead to extremely adverse conditions in the agriculture industry. -- Michael McCaul
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me. -- Jane Fonda
A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk. -- Ben Carson
To overcome adverse circumstances, you have to learn to overcome your own hang-ups, values, and idiosyncrasies in order to value other people, cultures, and ideas. -- Anne F. Beiler
Early intervention programs enrich adverse family environments. The largest effects of the early intervention programs are on noncognitive traits. Now, what do I mean by that? I mean perseverance, motivation, self-esteem, and hard work. -- James Heckman
I've never been asked to do a collaboration. I guess I just don't give off that come-and-get-me vibe. I wouldn't be adverse to doing one with Coldplay or U2 - anyone who sells 50 million albums. -- Noel Gallagher
Being a reporter and chasing down an assignment isn't an easy thing to do, especially when you're dealing with athletes that are so focused and trying to get their little game plan together to perform under adverse conditions... it's tough. -- Junior Seau
What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself. -- Daley Thompson
Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path. -- Kevyn Aucoin
The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force. -- Ben Shapiro
Safe care saves lives and saves money. Adverse events like high levels of infection, blood clots or falls in hospital, emergency readmissions and pressure sores cost the NHS billions of pounds every year. There is a serious human cost, too, with patients ending up injured, or even dead. Most are avoidable with the right care. -- Andrew Lansley
Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas. -- John Stuart Mill
One doesn't mind adverse criticism so long as it isn't stupid. -- Jonathan Meades
Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse. -- John Milton
The adverse economic events following the First World War turned me toward economics. -- Theodore Schultz
We prove God by showing active faith, which puts to flight all adverse appearances -- Florence Scovel Shinn
All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them. -- Charles Caleb Colton
In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends. -- Euripides
Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game -- Wilhelm Steinitz
Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited. -- Sallust
Its a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive so even under adverse circumstances think positively. -- Amit Abraham
Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel. -- Horace
The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable. -- Matthieu Ricard
Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid. -- Dorothy Salisbury Davis
My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns. -- Wilhelm Steinitz
Let us think about 'zero-defect and zero effect'. Zero defect in production with no adverse effect on the environment. -- Narendra Modi
To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse. -- Thomas Jefferson
Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune. -- Robert Southey
Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a dreamer. Dream on. -- Wallace D. Wattles
A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women. -- C. S. Lewis
It is good advice to slow down a little, steady the course, and focus on the essentials when experiencing adverse conditions. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
Don't neglect adverse situations. Sometimes, they carry the yolk of great differences. When you break them away, you waste the yolk! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them. -- Seth Klarman
No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic -- George Henry Lewes
A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk. -- Ben Carson
In my judgement, when the United States says there will be serious consequences, and if there isn't serious consequences, it creates adverse consequences. -- George W. Bush
I would include non-medical sex selection as one of those practices that I think is morally questionable and that can carry adverse social consequences. -- Michael Sandel
There are a lot of people in Milwaukee who have had adverse impacts from Scott Walker. He's managed to mess over everyone in Milwaukee. -- Gwen Moore
The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them. -- Edmund Burke
To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements. -- Vance Havner
One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror. -- William Kenneth Hartmann
He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse. -- Livy
The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being -- John Kenneth Galbraith
There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest. -- Edward Gibbon
We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow. -- John Calvin
Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from New Jersey). -- Bill Kraus
I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions. -- Albert Schweitzer
Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing in the revenues. -- Colin Powell
However, the Government has made it clear that we do not encourage the recruitment of teachers from developing nations where there may be an adverse effect on the economy. -- Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page. -- Robert Aris Willmott
As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs. -- Steven F. Hayward
We need to have capabilities second to none. We need to create a situation where Chinies know that there will be adverse impacts if they continue to do what they're doing. -- Jeb Bush
Dhyana is retaining one's tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse conditions present themselves one after another. -- D.T. Suzuki
Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists. -- Criss Jami
There's an artist that I listened to for the first time, and I really didn't like them. I had some kind of adverse reaction, and later, it became my favorite thing. -- Regina Spektor
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be -- John Heywood
We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again. -- Alan Shepard
Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore. -- Horace
This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe there is a way out of every difficulty, which may be found by earnest though. -- L. Frank Baum
The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity. -- Edward Bach
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to continue plodding in the face of the most adverse circumstances. -- Pat Summitt

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