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"The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do."
"All have I overcome, all do I know. From all am I detached. All have I renounced. Wholly absorbed am I in ``the destruction of craving. Having comprehended all by myself, whom shall I call my teacher."
"Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome."
"Whenever I see you, I am overcome with the urge to be rooted within you, to be buried deep so your body can nourish me."
"Some allow themselves to be overcome by panic, and others charge because they dare not remain at their posts. Some may be found whose courage is strengthened by small perils that prepare them to face greater dangers. Some are daring when facing swords but dread facing bullets; others dread bullets little but fear facing swords a lot."
"Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome. [Though a lie be well dressed, it is ever overcome.]"
"State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome."
"Anyone in a position to overcome barriers to free thought and communication should do so."
"Bigger than any obstacle is the strength that one posses It's a power that overcomes every obstacle"
"My humanity is a constant self-overcoming."
"The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude."
"Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome."
"What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless."
"The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it."
"To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love."
"You wouldn’t be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear."
"Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area."
"...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil."
"The faith towards God in Christ must be sure and steadfast, that it may solace and make glad the conscience, and put it to rest. When a man has this certainty, he has overcome the serpent; but if he be doubtful of the doctrine, it is for him very dangerous to dispute with the devil."
"There is an amazing something in the American psyche which speaks about courage, and it says, 'Yes I can,' ... Yes, we will overcome it all because we have the spirit to do so."
