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"In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so."
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"In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love."
"The struggle is beautiful."
"But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get."
"Fear says that what God has called me to is blatantly impossible. Selfishness says that the cost is unacceptably prohibitive. My humanity harbors other lesser agendas that seduce me to my own death. And I would be wise to believe none of it."
"Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need not as a call to battle though embattled we are but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out 'rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation' a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny poverty disease and war itself."
"I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say."
"She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life."
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"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."
"The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power."
"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes."
"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us."
"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem."
"Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline."
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