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struggle
«It is occasionally possible to charge Hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain»
Author: Doris Fleeson
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Hell
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bucket, buckets, charge, gods, Gods Themselves, in vain, occasionally, struggle, stupidity, take charge, the gods, The Gods Themselves, vain
«If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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agitation, cropped, crops, deprecate, deprecates, deprecating, favor, favoring, ground, lightning, like thunder, plowed, plowing, plows, profess, professes, professing, rain, struggle, thunder, thundered, thundering
«It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned. It is not what we intend but what we do that makes us useful. And, it is not a few faint wishes but a lifelong struggle that makes us valiant.»
«It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.»
Author: Molly Ivins
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constitution, established, extend, extend to, History of, In America, liberties, struggle, The History, The History of
«It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
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Words
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asthmatic, breath, inadequate, lover, strange, struggle, struggling, The Lover
«If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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backing, beasts, capitalists, criminals, cut, cut up, imbeciles, logical, prevent, reasons, struggle, The Criminals
«In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
acquire, adept, ambition, get rid of, literary, literature, novice, novices, rid, rid of, struggle, The Novice
«Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Progress
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automatic, concern, dedicated, dedicates, dedicating, exertions, Human sacrifice, individuals, inevitable, justice, passionate, requires, sacrifice, struggle, The Goal, tireless
«In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.»
