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• What is important is that one strives to achieve a goal.

  Ronald Reagan

  Goal, Important, Strive

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• Whereas banking education anesthetizes and inhibits creative power, problem-posing education involves a constant unveiling of reality.  The former attempts to maintain the submersion of consciousness; the latter strives for the emergence of consciousness and critical intervention in reality.

  Paulo Freire

  Reality, Creative, Unveiling

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• America's humanitarian concern for foreign victims of natural disasters or civil strife is being abused by President Bush when he extends legal status to foreigners in the US when there is no reason that they could not go home safely.

  Dan J. Stein

  Home, America, President

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• Wit and judgment often are at strife.

  Alexander Pope

  Judgment, Wit

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.241

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• The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.

  Alexander Pope

  Light, Color, Giving

  Alexander Pope (1867). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H.St.John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.23

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• ...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and waitresses calling you 'hon,' you know. Racial strife in the sixties, the riots during the Civil War. F. Scott Fitzgerald said it was civilized and gay, rotted and polite. The terms are slightly anachronistic now, but I think he was essentially right.

  Laura Lippman

  War, Gay, Boys

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• Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.

  Masiela Lusha

  Compassion, Would Be, Better Person

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• Even the humblest men have a strange reason behind greed. Every man thinks money solves problems - and every man thinks not just of himself, but his next three generations - there is a probability he will live to see those generations - and he wants to care for them in times of strife.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Men, Thinking, Greed

  "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.

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• Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is still small. Difficult undertakings have always started with what easy. Great undertakings always started with what is small. Therefore the sage never strives for the great,And thereby the great is achieved.

  Laozi

  Character, Sage, Easy

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• I don't think anyone strives to be anything negative. I just think that it's our nature to only focus on a few things in life and forget about a lot of other stuff.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, Things In Life, Focus

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Wise, Men, Goal

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.174, Shambhala Publications

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• Rest is sweet after strife.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Sweet

  "Lucile". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (Part I, Canto VI, Stanza 25), 1860.

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• Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Training, Wish, Fame

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• Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which, turn in turn wounded and humiliated one by the other, intercross, come into collision, and on the morrow expiate the triumph of the eve in the bitterness of defeat. To live alone, to remain unjostled in this miserable struggle, where for a moment one draws the eyes of the spectators, to be crushed a moment later -- this is what is called being a nonentity, having no existence. Poor humanity!

  Nicolas Chamfort

  War, Struggle, Eye

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• O beautiful for spacious skies, . . . O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, Til all success be nobleness And every gain divine!

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Beautiful, Country, Business

  Katharine Lee Bates (1911). “America the Beautiful: And Other Poems”

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• Homer was wrong in saying, "Would that strife might pass away from among gods and men!" He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Passing Away, Might

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8621, Delphi Classics

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• The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen. ... At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. ... Public extravagance begets extravagance among the people.

  Grover Cleveland

  Appreciation, Government, People

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• A good company delivers excellent products and services, and a great company does all that and strives to make the world a better place.

  Bill Ford

  Inspiring, Doe, World

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• What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilisation concerns man's behaviour to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.

  Edward Mayhew

  Horse, Teaching, Animal

  Edward Mayhew (1864). “The Illustrated Horse Management: Containing Descriptive Remarks Upon Anatomy, Medicine, Shoeing, Teeth, Food, Vices, Stables : Likewise a Plain Account of the Situation, Nature and Value of the Various Points : Together with Comments on Grooms, Dealers, Breeders, Breakers and Trainers : Also, on Carriages and Harness”, p.10

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• Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Peace, Sleep

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

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• Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Joy, Good Man

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• We can paint unrealistic pictures of the juggler--displaying her now as a problem-free paragon of glamour and now as a modern hag.Or we can see in the juggler a real person who strives to overcome the obstacles that nature and society put in her path and who does so with vigor and determination.

  Faye J Crosby

  Determination, Real, Path

  Faye J. Crosby (1991). “Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families”, Free Pr

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• Every new social structure strives to come up with some kind of mythology of divine origin for its values and aims.

  Zsuzsanna Budapest

  Kind, Strive, Social

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• The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Order, Chaos

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.226

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• If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.

  Saadi

  Art, Elephants, Lions

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