"Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security."
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"Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither."
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"Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me."
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"There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?"
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"Let us not see today's troubles as a reason to give up; let us see them as an opportunity for God to deliver."
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"If I give up nine runs on nine hits, I tip my hat."
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"I want to make guys put the ball in play. If I give up ten hits, then I give up ten hits. But I want to work on making them earn it."
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"Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us."
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"The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the heavens, and the fire-flies mimicked them in the lower air, as men may feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of beings; the long dusty roads and the interminable plains were in repose-and so deep a hush was on the sea, that it scarcely whispered of the time when it shall give up its dead."
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"If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you, Walter, I will go to the world's end without fear. I can give up nothing for you - I have nothing to resign, and no one to forsake; but all my love and life shall be devoted to you, and with my last breath I will breathe your name to God if I have sense and memory left."
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"Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early."
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"Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so."
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"In these researches I followed the principles of the experimental method that we have established, i.e., that, in presence of a well-noted, new fact which contradicts a theory, instead of keeping the theory and abandoning the fact, I should keep and study the fact, and I hastened to give up the theory."
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"The secret for an artist is to make that a subject and not bang your head against the wall and give up. But to turn it into and treat the new subject matter, which is one's own vanishing."
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"There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them."
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"Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you."
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"This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up"
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"You should never give up your inner self."
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"I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile."
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"I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation."
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