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Marion D. Hanks Religious Leader
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"Material objectives consume too much of our attention. The struggle for what we need or for more than we need exhausts our time and energy. We pursue pleasure or entertainment, or become very involved in associations or civic matters. Of course, people need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute, but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high. The substitutions we fashion to take the place of God in our lives truly hold no water. To the measure we thus refuse the "living water," we miss the joy we could have."

People Struggle Fashion
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Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Writer
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"In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself."

Men Struggle Essence
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Joseph Stalin Politician, Revolutionary
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"The situation is that in Germany capitalism has remained, classes and class struggle have remained which all the same will break into the open, which includes also the field of struggle of parties representing opposing classes just as it broke through in, let us say, Spain."

Party Struggle Class
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
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"The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the social contract theory of Hobbes, the "back to nature" optimism of Rousseau, and the superman philosophy of Nietzsche, I found in the nonviolent resistance philosophy of Gandhi. I came to feel that this was the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom."

People Philosophy Struggle
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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"I write these words to bear witness to the primacy of resistance struggle in any situation of domination (even within family life); to the strength and power that emerges from sustained resistance and the profound conviction that these forces can be healing, can protect us from dehumanization and despair."

Writing Struggle Healing
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Dolly Parton Singer, Songwriter, Actress
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"People just relate to me. They know I'm a regular person brought up in a hardworking, poor family, that I've had all the struggles that people have. I'm just a friendly person. And I hopefully have a good sense of humor. People get a kick out of my stupidity."

People Struggle Stupidity
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Bob Marley Musician, Singer-Songwriter
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"What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth."

Life Struggle Jamaica
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Assata Shakur Activist
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"The more you understand what you're dealing with, the stronger you get. People see fear as a bad thing. Fear is healthy when you're dealing with Amerika. But when fear controls you, when you're afraid to struggle fear is a bad thing. I'm more afraid of what will happen if I don't struggle, than what will happen if I do"

People Struggle Healthy
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Ramana Maharshi Spiritual Teacher
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"If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely."

Thinking Fighting Struggle
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Thelma Wells Author and Speaker
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"The road to glory is difficult with its rocks and boulders, its strain and struggle. Things aren't always as easy as we would like. Surprises and pitfalls wait for us along the road of life. We're going to sweat and sway, we're going to wonder why things are the way they are. But every road has an end; every mountain has its peak. If we can just hold on and keep climbing, knowing that God is aware of how we're straining, he will bring us up and over the mountains."

Struggle Faith Sweat
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Mao Zedong Politician, Revolutionary
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"The agricultural co-operative movement has been a severe ideological and political struggle from the very beginning. No cooperative can be established without going through such a struggle. Before a brand-new social system can be built on the site of the old, the site must be swept clean. Invariably, remnants of old ideas reflecting the old system remain in people's minds for a long time, and they do not easily give way. After a co-operative is established, it must go through many more struggles before it can be consolidated. Even then, the moment it relaxes its efforts it may collapse."

Long Ideas Struggle
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Isaac Watts Hymn Writer, Poet
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"Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?"

Winning Struggle Sea
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Helen Keller Author, Activist
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"Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world."

Moving Struggle Twilight
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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
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"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us."

Struggle Journey Travel
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Horace Mann Educator
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"Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment."

Heart Past Struggle
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B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Teacher
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"People say that steadiness of mind is an end; no, it is a beginning. I am there; I can explain everything up to that point. Then I struggle to discover what comes after, so this steadiness is not an end, it is the beginning and the instrument."

People Mind Struggle
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Pete Wilson Politician
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"I've discovered that sometimes God wants us to live inside of the questions. Sometimes he wants us to linger in the waiting, hoping, praying. In fact, sometimes it's right in the middle of our darkness in the middle of our crisis, in the middle of our Plan B struggles that God speaks most clearly."

Struggle Waiting Darkness
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