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«The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others.»
Author: Janet Malcolm
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«He would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea...but know that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself and the sea would surge while the man drowned in it.»
«The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
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Writing
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«If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
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«Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.»
«The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.»
«Plunge boldly into the thick of life!»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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«Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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«It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: ''We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer.''»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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«Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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