"Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad."
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"As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome."
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"The passage of the mythological hero may be over ground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward--into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost, forgotten powers are revivified, to be made available for the transfiguration of the world."
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"Fasting will also overcome sexual additions and demonic powers."
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"It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome."
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"Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate?"
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"Sometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never ALLOW this world to knock you down! Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!"
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"Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them."
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"Fundamental assumptions in general and scientific assumptions in particular are so hard to overturn because they are based on belief. Beliefs are so hard to overcome because they are irrational and therefore do not yield to logical argument."
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"If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved."
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"...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day."
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"If Colin Powell was president, I'd follow him. I wanna get into politics. That's the way for us to overcome a lot of our obstacles."
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"You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them."
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"To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty."
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"The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong."
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"Winners evaluate themselves in a positive manner and look for their strengths as they work to overcome weaknesses."
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"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger... Let a man overcome anger by love."
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"With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!"
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"Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome."
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"The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom."
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