"You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it."
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"Dream and don't ask too many questions, or fear will overcome your feelings."
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"That is a question we cannot answer before, or even during, the trials. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were there."
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"There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere... In every case the opposition could only be overcome - peacefully or by force - because of the promise of capitalism to establish equality... That this promise was an illusion we all know."
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"When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how itcomes out."
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"You're going to have more rejection than acceptance."
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"About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome."
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"He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more."
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"There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate."
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"I'm absolutely terrified of heights, so maybe it's something I'd like to do in the future... although even saying it scares me! But I would absolutely love to overcome my fear of heights."
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"A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it."
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"Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might suppose that the possession of such a magnificent formula, combined with the tremendous assurance of a benevolent God, would make a person happy. But such appears not to be the case.: unease and insecurity and rage seem to keep up with blissful certainty, and even to outpace it."
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"Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome."
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"But it was very hard for people to separate me out from Hillary Clinton. All their ads were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and me. They said I was more liberal than these guys, and that if I went to Washington I'd be supporting their agenda. I found that extremely difficult to overcome."
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"Socialism is overcoming certain difficulties, it is working in order to try to achieve social advances, to really achieve a society where everybody improves, not where just the elite improve and the others get worse."
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"It is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment."
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"We have to overcome our societal conditioning which says we are unworthy."
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"Study water. Try to grab a hold of water, and it will always elude you. You just have to let yourself be in it. It's soft, and it overcomes anything that's hard. Put the hardest substance - say, titanium - out there, and let water flow over it. Eventually, patiently, peacefully, the water will just wear it away. Also, water will enter anywhere - through any opening at all. So, let yourself be like that. God is in nature, everywhere and always. And we have so much to learn."
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"I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them."
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"Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome."
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