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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
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Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.
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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal.
Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.
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I didn't know why God had chose me for this ordeal, but I was somehow suited to it and knew that I would see it through to the end.
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Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
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I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
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People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true.
It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
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She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born.
As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.
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These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.
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The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist - and she hates making that phone call!
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.
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The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive.