"In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so."

Struggle, End, Nothing

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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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"Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it'll all get better and better as you abstain and recover: they somehow omit to mention that the way it gets better and you get better is through pain. Not around pain, or in spite of it."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"The whole thing could have been uncomfortable if all your wishes were to be drowned in to the sea or passed through a heart of a lion that shed not the innocent blood."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"Having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

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"People simply say "Struggles bring you success, but they do not understand that those struggles certainly fuck us too."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light."

John Milton, English Poet

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"I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. I abandoned it and framed a humbler supplication. For change, stimulus. That petition, too, seemed swept off into vague space. "Then," I cried, half desperate, "grant me at least a new servitude!"

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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"Some of the hardest battles we fight are those against the demons of our past, over which we have no control."

Charles F. Glassman, American Author

Struggle, Battle, Past, Control

"In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"Discouragement is root of distress."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it."

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"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem."

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"Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category."

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"In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'."

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"The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings."

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"Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them."

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"Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction."

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