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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. ↗

— George Eliot

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The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#become #believe #cooperation #international #international cooperation

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. ↗

— George Eliot

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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. ↗

— George Eliot

#even #experience #human #human experience #incongruous

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

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What is the source of all this trouble? I'm saying that the source is basically in thought. Many people would think that such a statement is crazy, because thought is the one thing we have with which to solve our problems. That's part of our tradition. ↗

— David Bohm

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The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

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Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that. ↗

— Brian Boitano

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I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver. ↗

— Elizabeth Emken

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I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it. ↗

— Robert Emmet

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