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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both.
Author: I Ching
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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.
Author: Rocky Aoki
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Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
Author: Louis Aragon
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
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It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.
Author: Robert Armstrong
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
Author: Ceslaw Milosz
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Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
Author: Auson
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Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: "It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... ".
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Author: Francis Bacon
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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
Author: Marcus Antonius
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Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
Author: Robert Benchley
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I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.
Author: Edward Bond
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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
Author: Marcus T. Cicero
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Author: Simone De Beauvoir
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
Author: Larry Adler
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Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
Author: Charlotte Bronte
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Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26].
Author: Bible
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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20].
Author: Bible
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Author: Frederic Chopin
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The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is week. [Matthew 26:41].
Author: Bible
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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out. [Numb!2:23].
Author: Bible
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God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.
Author: Robert Irvine
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I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.
Author: Helen Alfredsson
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Well, excuuuuuse me!!!!.
Author: Steve Martin
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We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
Author: Antisthenes
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Author: Aesop
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There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
Author: Publius Terentius Afer
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Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
Author: Epictetus
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Success has made failures of many men.
Author: Cindy Adams
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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
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Hatred can be overcome only by love.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
Author: James Russell Lowell
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Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
Author: Anacharsis
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Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.
Author: Troy Aikman
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Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.
Author: Bible
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If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
Author: Woody Allen
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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
Author: Amar Gopal Bose
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The art of losing isn't hard to masters; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Author: Elizabeth Bishop
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Author: Confucius
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An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
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A fighter has to know fear.
Author: Cus D'amato
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We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-lytton
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I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!.
Author: Jack Kerouac
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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
Author: Clara Barton
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When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
Author: Confucius
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Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on.
Author: Dante (alighieri)
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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
Author: Corrie Ten Boom
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This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.
Author: Charlie Brown
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