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«We must make demands of reason and create a life worthy of ourselves and of the goals we only dimly perceive»
«When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.»
Author: Andre P. Brink
| About:
Lies,
Truth,
Words
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above all, conspiracies, conspiracy, conspiracy of silence, demands, surrounding, utter
«You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output -- how much you produce -- not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.»
Author: Jean Shinoda Bolen
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caring, defensive, defensive measure, demands, element, evolution, go against, internal, in terms of, measures, orient, oriented, orients, output, Personal experience, pervasive, psyche, resist, soulful
«We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
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common man, demands, distinguish, excellent, former, latter
«The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.»
Author: Colin Powell
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council, council of, demands, doubted, enforced, enforces, enforcing, legitimacy, met, purposes, regime, regimes, resolutions, security, Security Council, States, the United States, unavoidable, united, United States
«When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death»
Author: Tom Robbins
(Novelist)
| About:
Death and dying,
Fear,
Frustration,
Life,
People
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deep-seated, demand, demands, ordinarily, resentment, seated
«To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -- because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
assert, asserts, cloak, costs, cowardly, demands, entitled, forbearance, lazy, Too lazy
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