"You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way."
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"I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it."
"In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology."
"The painter strives and competes with nature."
"Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that."
"Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under."
"To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead."
"The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed."
"Man's restlessness makes him strive."
"Man must strive, and striving he must err."
"Man errs, till he has ceased to strive."
"Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save."