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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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• 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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• 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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• ...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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• Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

  Heraclitus

  War, Justice, Passing Away

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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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• 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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• Whoever, with an earnest soul,
  Strives for some end from this low world afar,
  Still upward travels though he miss the goal,
  And strays--but towards a star.

  Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

  Stars, Hero, Goal

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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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• 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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• In green old gardens, hidden away From sight of revel and sound of strife, Here I have leisure to breathe and move, And to do my work in a nobler way; To sing my songs, and to say my say; To Dream my dreams, and to love my love; To hold my faith, and to live my life. Making the most of its shadowy day.

  Violet Fane

  Life, Faith, Dream

  Violet Fane, “In Green Old Gardens”

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• Man errs as long as he strives.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Philosophy, Men

  Faust pt. 1 "Prolog im Himmel" (1808)

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• Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Law, Individual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.21

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• A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics symbolized by such words as faith, integrity, hope, optimism, courage, initiative, generosity, tolerance, tact, kindliness, and good common sense. A person with positive mental attitude aims for high goals and constantly strives to achieve them.

  Napoleon Hill

  Positive, Attitude, Integrity

  Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1960). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly supported yet unable to fulfill all its promise; boasting remarkable advances but criticized for not serving more directly the goals of society.

  J. Michael Bishop

  Hope, Future, Science

  J. Michael BISHOP (2009). “How to Win the Nobel Prize”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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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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• What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Men, One Direction

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.61, Heron Dance Press

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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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• Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.

  Charles Churchill

  Couple, Men, Wife

  'The Rosciad' (1761) l. 1005

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• But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of this dominant function, amid the din of political and religious strife, is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilisation.

  Arthur Balfour

  Change, Religious, Knowledge

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• What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Data, Understanding

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.188, Open Road Media

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• [O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.

  Albert Einstein

  Destiny, Humanity, Atheism

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• For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
  An age of discord and continual strife?
  Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,
  And is a pattern of celestial peace.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Patterns, Bliss

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.247, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

  Bobby Ray Inman

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• A scientist strives to understand the work of Nature. But with our insufficient talents as scientists, we do not hit upon the truth all at once. We must content ourselves with tracking it down, enveloped in considerable darkness, which leads us to make new mistakes and errors. By diligent examination, we may at length little by little peel off the thickest layers, but we seldom get the core quite free, so that finally we have to be satisfied with a little incomplete knowledge.

  Torbern Bergman

  Mistake, Knowledge, Science

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