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When you attack a tyranny you must expect it to fight back.

He was trying hard to continue to exist as himself despite the unlikeliness of everything.

How did writing come to me? Like bird’s down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in th...

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It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to t...

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There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting a...

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As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravin...

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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.

Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in ...

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Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

People finally understood that the role of the social-democratic party rests on its conscious leader...

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The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measur...

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Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict...

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps t...

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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all ...

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Santiago Ramón y CajalAdvice for a Young Investigator

Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the thing...

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My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives t...

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Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us ...

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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If ...

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Susan SontagAt the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at...

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He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God. 

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Swami VivekanandaComplete Works of Swami Vivekananda

So the lover must struggle for words.

The world turns and the world changes,But one thing does not change.In all of my years, one thing do...

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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the lit...

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The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible ...

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Thomas LigottiGrimscribe: His Lives and Works

Hidden away amongst Aschenbach’s writing was a passage directly asserting that nearly all the great ...

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A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too ligh...

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Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

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Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

What excited and challenged her shipmates horrified the churched women and each set believed the oth...

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It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.

No one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble. Not knowing how hard it is to carry on when no ...

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You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.

Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggl...

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My faith has been tempered in Hell. My faith has emerged from the flames of the crematoria, from the...

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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

Anyhow, whether undergraduate or shop boy, man or woman, it must come as a shock about the age of tw...

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By then I wasn't just asking questions; I was being changed by them. I was being changed by my praye...

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He used to say that he never felt the hardness of the human struggle or the sadness of history as he...

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I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought f...

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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth ...

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What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and pa...

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My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to ...

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The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He p...

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Yōko OgawaThe Housekeeper and the Professor

A man is a man is a man. His family threatened, his beliefs attacked, his way of life destroyed, his...

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I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care ab...

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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy s...

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Any philosophy, whether of a religious or political nature - and sometimes the dividing line is hard...

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No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There ...

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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to u...

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In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common ...

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There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

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Albert CamusThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

You are not alone in the struggles of life. Entire cosmos is with you. It evolves through the way yo...

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Amit RayMindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

Every struggle is like mud - there are always some lotus seeds waiting to sprout.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

So what do I do? What do we do? How do we move forward when we are tired and afraid? What do we do w...

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Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is n...

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Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possib...

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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participatio...

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If she[…] had known how much her first half-inch beginning to let go would take - and how long her n...

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You must take the world as you find it, with a struggle to be something more honest than those aroun...

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She was not willing to let others narrate her life and her death. While there is one person like her...

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The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situa...

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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not ha...

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A choice of pains. That's what living was all about.

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Audre LordeZami: A New Spelling of My Name

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days ...

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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents al...

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We see, surrounding the narrow raft illuminated by the flickering light of human comradeship, the da...

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Bertrand RussellWhy I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others ...

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You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

The reckoning is how we walk into our story; the rumble is where we own it. The goal of the rumble i...

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Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and w...

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God's presence is not the same as the feeling of God's presence and He may be doing most for us when...

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It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the trues...

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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen ...

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It would indeed be a sad misfortune if man were released from the necessity of work and struggle, fo...

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having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor.

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Divine justice pursued its course; disasters came thick on me: I was forced to pass through the vall...

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That's my biggest struggle, is maintaining a personal romantic relationship. It takes a lot of effor...

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Through every struggle that I have been confronted with and have been subjected to - solitary confin...

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As a boy, the very words 'Liberty Bell' and 'Independence Hall' fired my imagination and made a prof...

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I feel that there has to be a purpose to what we do. If there was no hope at all, we should just sle...

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The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, i...

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I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left ...

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Maybe I write because I’ve learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still strugg...

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I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Eve...

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My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and ...

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Legionary life is beautiful, not because of riches, partying or the acquisition of luxury, but becau...

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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One...

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Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth...

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No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establis...

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David Foster WallaceConsider the Lobster and Other Essays

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. T...

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We appealed to the conscience of the world. The world has no conscience. We have no one but ourselve...

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Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k...

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