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• Shall hope prevail where clamorous hate is rife,
  Shall sweet love prosper or high dreams have place
  Amid the tumult of reverberant strife
  'Twixt ancient creeds, 'twixt race and ancient race,
  That mars the grave, glad purposes of life,
  Leaving no refuge save thy succoring face?

  Sarojini Naidu

  Dream, Hope, Sweet

  Shiri R. Bakshi, Sarojini Naidu, Bishamber D. Yadav (1990). “Struggle for independence: Indian freedom fighters. Sarojini Naidu”

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• It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they ceased their fratricidal strife and, uniting their mighty forces under the flag of Progress, completed the conquest of the world and doomed Poverty, Ignorance and Vice... Unless labor is employed, capital cannot increase - it cannot concentrate. Unless property rights are held inviolable and capital thereby encouraged to high enterprise, labor is left without a lever with which to lift itself to perfect life and must sink back to barbarism.

  William Cowper Brann

  Ignorance, Rights, Perfect

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• I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.

  Van Morrison

  Relationship, Trouble, Wells

  Song: Underlying Depression, Album: Days Like This

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• Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Happiness, Marriage, Men

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• The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

  Heraclitus

  Opposites, Born, Beneficial

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• God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

  Aeschylus

  Love, God, Helping Others

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.419, Delphi Classics

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• Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

  Eric Hoffer

  Work, Ambition, Men

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• We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn't forced to be the systems integrator.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Apples, Androids

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• The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for all is to be derived rather from co-operation than from strife. I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them through life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mind, Wish, Armor

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can offer, and they temper you into something unbreakable because Lord knows they'll try -- without let up -- to break you.

  Mary Karr

  Effort, Trying, World

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• One errs as long as one strives.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Errors, Long, Strive

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• Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Fear, Justice, Strive

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• We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Perseverance, Men, Strive

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• Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Party, Prejudice, Null

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.

  Michelangelo

  Religious, Perfect, Soul

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• The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

  Andre Malraux

  Art, World, Strive

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• If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.

  Rumi

  Joy, Solitude, If You Love Someone

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• One of the unique aspects of rowing is that novices strive to perfect the same motions as Olympic contenders. Few other sports can make this claim. In figure skating, for instance, the novice practices only simple moves. After years of training, the skater then proceeds to the jumps and spins that make up an elite skater's program. But the novice rower, from day one, strives to duplicate a motion that he'll still be doing on the day of the Olympic finals.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Sports, Moving, Unique

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• The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.

  William Howard Taft

  Degrees, Masonic, Strive

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• Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that serves to impose them, when it refuses all hierarchical organization and preaches free agreement - at the same time strives to maintain and enlarge the precious kernel of social customs without which no human or animal society can exist. Only, instead of demanding that those social customs should be maintained through the authority of a few, it demands it from the continued action of all.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Animal, Agreement, Law

  "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal". Book by Peter Kropotkin, 1898.

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• Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against it.

  John of Kronstadt

  Taught Us, Devil, Way

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• In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Country, Attention, Strive

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• With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

  William Cowper

  Heart, Gambling, Typical

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author”, p.42

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• There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of its dominion as much as possible. To control everything, to leave no room for anything to happen of its own accord without the interference of the authorities--th is is the goal for which every ruler secretly strives.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Goal, Dominion, Rooms

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.53, VM eBooks

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• So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

  Rowan Williams

  Beauty, Order, Creative

  Sergeĭ Nikolaevich Bulgakov, Rowan Williams (1999). “Sergii Bulgakov: towards a Russian political theology”, Tamp;t Clark Ltd

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