"The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt."
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"While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it."
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"Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever."
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"The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach."
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"Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight."
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"Many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment, and imagine living your whole live like that. Always, this moment is not quite good enough because you need to get to the next one."
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"The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles."
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"All limits exist only in thought, and that is where they are overcome."
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"For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method."
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"How to overcome destructive criticism? Just love a little more. That's all."
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"The riveting moral power of the Arab Spring comes from its homegrown quality. This is about Arabs overcoming fear to become agents of their own transformation and liberation."
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"I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may."
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"Happy are those who have overcome their egos; happy are those who have attained peace; happy are those who have found the Truth."
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"Overcoming yourself is better than overcoming a million enemies in battle."
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"Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love."
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"He that endures is not overcome."
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"Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable."
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"The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions."
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"The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement."
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"I believe that the destructive nature of society that now threatens the existence of the entire human world has much to do with human intelligence. The way to overcome all human suffering-that also is through human intelligence."
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