"That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances."
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"Stillness overcomes heat."
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"Movement overcomes cold."
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"If I lose a billion dollars, I will have it back in less than five years."
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"People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within."
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"Ruthless striving, overcomes everything."
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"I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits"
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"Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them."
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"Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace."
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"The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself."
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"The great human problem of evil stems from the illusion of separateness. Whenever this illusion is overcome, we behave lovingly to one another."
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"All limits exist only in the mind, and it is only in the mind that they can be overcome."
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"Those who doubt most, and yet strive to overcome their doubts, turn out to be some of Christ's strongest disciples."
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"It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds."
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"Your fear is the most boring thing about you."
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"When I do overcome my fear - what's going to happen is that I'm going to want a plane."
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"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."
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"In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it."
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"Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."
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"I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals."
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