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Oscar Wilde Writer
Struggle

"It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value."

Pain Struggle Silly
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Oscar Romero Archbishop, Activist
Struggle

"When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for those who are hungry, for those who have no schools, for those who are deprived, we are not departing from God's promise. He comes to free us from sin, and the church knows that sin's consequences are all such injustices and abuses. The church knows it is saving the world when it undertakes to speak also of such things."

Christian Inspiration Struggle
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Mao Zedong Politician, Revolutionary
Struggle

"On what basis should our policy rest? It should rest on our own strength, and that means regeneration through one's own efforts. We are not alone; all the countries and people in the world opposed to imperialism are our friends. Nevertheless, we stress regeneration through our own efforts. Relying on the forces we ourselves organize, we can defeat all Chinese and foreign reactionaries."

Country Struggle Stress
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Nelson Mandela Political Leader
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"Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days."

Fighting Struggle Sacrifice
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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker
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"The real is near, you do not have to seek it; and a man who seeks truth will never find it. Truth is in what is - and that is the beauty of it. But the moment you conceive it, the moment you seek it, you begin to struggle; and a man who struggles cannot understand. That is why we have to be still, observant, passively aware."

Men Real Struggle
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Aeschylus Playwright
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"The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm is splintered. He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. The god laughs at the hot-headed man, seeing him, who boasted that this would never happen, exhausted by distress without remedy and unable to surmount the cresting wave. He wrecks the happiness of his earlier life on the reef of Justice, and he perishes unwept, unseen."

Men Struggle Hot Headed
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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
Struggle

"When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power."

Self Struggle Approval
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Che Guevara Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
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"Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted."

Government Struggle Popular Vote
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Angelina Grimke Activist
Struggle

"The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free."

War Struggle Land
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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
Struggle

"In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish."

Struggle Grief Serenity
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Mao Zedong Politician, Revolutionary
Struggle

"Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years."

Years Struggle Civilization
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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
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"To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up."

Art Struggle Latin
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John Green Author, YouTuber
Struggle

"Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing the time as comfortable as possible? What should a story seek to emulate, Augustus? A ringing alarm? A call to arms? A morphine drip? Of course, like all interrogation of the universe, this line of inquiry inevitably reduces us to asking what it means to be human and whether—to borrow a phrase from the angst-encumbered sixteeen-year-olds you no doubt revile—there is a point to it all."

Mean Art Struggle
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Rex Harrison Actor
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"There is always a struggle, a striving for something bigger than yourself in all forms of art. And even if you don't achieve greatness, even if you fail, which we all must, everything you do in your work is somehow connected with your attitude toward life, your deepest secret feelings."

Art Struggle Attitude
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Robert Henri Artist
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"Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition."

Use Struggle Yesterday
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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are fighting actually with external nature, and if we are defeated, our life has to go. It is, for instance, a continuous struggle for food and air. If food or air fails, we die. Life is not a simple and smoothly flowing thing, but it is a compound effect. This complex struggle between something inside and the external world is what we call life. So it is clear that when this struggle ceases, there will be an end of life."

Fighting Simple Struggle
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