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Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I’ve learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next.

Adam Johnson

To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they’re always with you because they’re a part of you.”
ADAM JOHNSON

Alive Always Face Heart Inside Matter Part Someone
Today, tomorrow,” she said. “A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.
ADAM JOHNSON

Before Gone Match Nothing Out Strike Ten Thousand Today Tomorrow
Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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Country Discover Look Still Unique Wrong
Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I’ve learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next.
ADAM JOHNSON

Blind Bring Corner Dropped Dust Each Learnt Life Motivational Prepare Smash Stronger Taken
Sometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never ALLOW this world to knock you down!
ADAM JOHNSON

Adversity Allow Beaten Happen Hell Knee Knock Motivational never Overcoming World
There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you’ll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
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Dictated Farmer Job Measure Opera Rest Singer Youth
I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.
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Attention Book Current Focused Light Share Thinking Topic
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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Book Character City Imagine Literary Novel World Written Year
Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds?
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Daisies Eat Flower Hungry Life Marigold never Pansies Rose
. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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Every Loyalty Nobody Taught
Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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Choose Father Love Much One Orphan Twice
Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!
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Again Buckle Conjure Drive Keeping Knee Strength
Once the dust clears you will be standing tall, a champion, a victor. NOTHING will be able to knock you down once you’ve taken the biggest hits this life has to offer, so come on life, BRING IT!
ADAM JOHNSON

Biggest Champion Clear Dust Hit Knock Nothing Offer Standing Victor
And secretly, he’d be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.
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Change Conflict Important Paino Practsing Secretly Story Wise
The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
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Cast Country Death Dictator Eye Freedom Literature Truth
All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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All Enemy Lesson Life Need Taught

Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I’ve learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next.

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