#contend

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#contend #lose #man #never #nothing

When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters. ↗

— Edward F. Halifax

#contend #get #liberty #masters #new

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

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

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder? ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

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To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#beginnings #come #constitutes #contending #deeply

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#care #change #community #contend #evangelical