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If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#besides #i #i am #just #long

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#gun #necessary #only #order #rid

Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion. ↗

— Mel Gibson

#around #character #christ #drama #flesh

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one. ↗

— Andre Gide

#each #joy #line #loyalty #makes

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved. ↗

— Andre Gide

#depends #god #through #us

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. ↗

— Andre Gide

#authors #aware #become #differences #disagreement

I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#cultures #destiny #fault #find #i

When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities and talents - I sometimes feel as though we are all mice in a giant experimental maze, scurrying around frantically, trying to find our way through. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#days #dizzying #experimental #feel #female

The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well. ↗

— William Gilbert

#house #nothing #particular #peers #throughout

The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that. ↗

— David Gill

#expansion #feasibility #go #stadium #stage