"Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic."
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"Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty. People don't like doubt, so they pay money and give up opportunities to avoid it. Entrepreneurshi p is largely about living with doubt. If you need reassurance, you're giving up quite a bit to get it. On the other hand, if you can get in the habit of seeking out uncertainty, you'll have developed a great instinct."
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"believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic."
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"I think what we've had in the past is the government has said, "Well, we need to collect the whole haystack." And the haystack is Americans' privacy. Every Americans' privacy. We have to give up all of our privacy."
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"People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts."
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"I guess I'm interested in pushing the boundaries of the cello without giving up on the idea of playing the cello, if that makes any sense. I have no real interest in putting the cello through different effects to make it sound like a guitar or other instruments."
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"Don't give - give up!"
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"She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity."
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"The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long."
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"Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter?"
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"I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical."
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"If we can elect an African American as president, we can support gay marriage! Defeat prop 8! We will not give up!"
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"A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan."
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"A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction."
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"If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth."
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"He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result."
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"What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength."
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"There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence."
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"The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions."
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"Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows."
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