Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees."
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Standing
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Nikos Kazantzakis
Novelist, Playwright
"The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet."
George Harrison
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it."
Anna Freud
Psychoanalyst
"Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!"
Charlie Chaplin
Actor, Filmmaker, Composer
"You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside."
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"Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up."
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"I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers."
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"A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing."
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"If you don't have any shadows, you're not standing in the light."
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"A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention."
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"Never shoot up in the air when you're standing under it."
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"I'd rather die standing than live on my knees."
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"It's not easy for me to admit that I've been standing in the same place for 18 years."
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"To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill."
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"People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you."
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"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army"
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"Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished."
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"I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else?"
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"If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink."
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"So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing."
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"I do believe in standing up for what you believe in and your family and your friends."
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"True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path."
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"Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention."
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"My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument."
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"Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us."
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