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Grow up and let anyone try to contend with the adult you.


Margaret Cho


#anyone #contend #grow #grow up #try

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.


Marcus Tullius Cicero


#criminality #enemy #folly #gates #luxury

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.


Joseph Lancaster


#benefit #bestow #contending #cultivation #deprived

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.


Franz Liszt


#arts #combine #contend #embodies #especially

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.


Martin Luther


#burden #choose #contend #god #goes

I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.


Ian MacKaye


#always #art #because #between #collision

One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.


Aimee Mann


#being #business #clearly #contend #couple

While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.


Josh McDowell


#contend #future #god #guilt #leave

I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me.


Phil Mickelson


#contending #fun #hate #i #just

I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.


William Least Heat-Moon


#anything #contend #i #i write #kind






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