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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
Giving Up

"Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit."

Mother Brother Giving Up
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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
Giving Up

"Be honest with yourself and with people always do everything on time. Never give up, go to your goals, even if all the bad. In this life, all really, you only need to do. The more I talk to people, the more I am convinced that in general they have one goal - to become the richest dead in the cemetery."

People Goal Giving Up
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Lady Gaga Singer, Actress
Giving Up

"If you’re going through a dark time... don’t ever give up. You can always make your way back to the other end of that circle and find your happiness again."

Dark Giving Up Circles
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
Giving Up

"... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism."

Men Animal Giving Up
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Oscar Wilde Writer
Giving Up

"It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming."

Men Mistake Giving Up
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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
Giving Up

"Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into the experience of weakness and powerlessness, become part of the uncertainty, and give up control and self-determination."

Self Giving Up Determination
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Giving Up

"Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal."

Would Be Giving Up Ions
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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist
Giving Up

"A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky."

Peace Giving Up Our World
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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer
Giving Up

"My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties."

Giving Up Blow Acceptance
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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
Giving Up

"Do you feel disappointed because something you planned didn’t work out If so you can get re-appointed today. In God there are never any dead-ends only detours. Don’t ever give up. Just keep trying until you succeed."

Trying Giving Up Work Out
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Paulo Coelho Writer
Giving Up

"The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far."

Soul Order Giving Up
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Calvin Coolidge Politician
Giving Up

"We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the government to prevent panics. Now the only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship. If we continue the more reasonable practice of managing our own affairs we must bear the burdens of our own mistakes. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for them to the government. Self-government means self-reliance."

Mistake Responsibility Giving Up
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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
Giving Up

"Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life."

Giving Up Regret Perseverance
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Eric Davis Baseball Player
Giving Up

"Never give up and don't ask why because every situation does not need an answer. I'm a firm believer that I don't worry about anything I can't control."

Doe Worry Giving Up
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