"[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!"
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"Don't give up. Reach down inside of you and you'll find something left."
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"If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one"
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"If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of mankind; indeed, this seems actually to be a psychological and sociological law: the power of some needs the folly of others. It is not that certain human capacities, intellectual capacities for instance, become stunted of destroyed, but rather that the upsurge of power makes such an overwhelming impression that men are deprived of their independent judgment, and...give up trying to assess the new state of affairs for themselves."
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"Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful."
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"My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding. You can’t get the peace that passes understanding until you give up your right to understand."
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"It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence in such a theory is certainly justified. There is less danger of going completely astray, particularly since it takes so much less time and effort to disprove such theories by experience. Yet more and more, as the depth of our knowledge increases, we must give up this advantage in our quest for logical simplicity in the foundations of physical theory."
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"We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself."
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"As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward."
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"Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up."
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"How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender."
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"To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified."
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"All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?"
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"Never give up. Never give up. Never give up."
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"If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the only safe way is to convince Hitler that he cannot beat us."
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"Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made nothing happens."
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"I have been happy . . . in believing that . . . whatever follies we may be led into as to foreign nations, we shall never give up our Union, the last anchor of our hope, and that alone which is to prevent this heavenly country from becoming an arena of gladiators."
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"Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one."
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"Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone."
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"Sometimes life hits you like a brick in the face. Don't give up."
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