"For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph."

Positive, Act, Aggression, Endurance

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"For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph."

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"But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary."

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"A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man."

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"I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had."

Rest, End, Sleep

"People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives."

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"An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates."

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"The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought."

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"It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive."

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"For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide."

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"For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph."

Positive, Act, Aggression, Endurance

"We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities."

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"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"Thus at the beginning of 1906 it seemed to be established that the emitters of the spectral series of chemical elements are their positive atomic ions."

Johannes Stark, German Physicist

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"Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought."

Napoleon Hill, American Writer

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"Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

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"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive."

Mike Johanns, American Politician

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