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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
La lutte elle-me" me vers les sommets suffit a' remplir un coeur d'homme. Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux. The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a human heart.One must imagine that Sisyphus is happy.
Say not the struggle naught availeth The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain.
The most important thing in the Olympic games is not winning but taking partjust as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.
A woman can look both moral and excitingif she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. But weel wat I they coudna bring Waur sounds frae hell.
But the adventure, the conquest of an unknown country, thestruggle against theimpossible, all have a fascination which draws me with an irresistible force.
We should never make a god out of form.We should struggle for form onlyas long as it serves as a means of expression for the inner sound.
What men or Gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
The perpetual struggle for room and food.
Notforalltheuniversecontainswould I, inthestrugglefor what I conceive to be my country's cause, consent to the effusion of a single drop of human blood, except myown.
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
My draft-dodging father proved that in the struggle for survival the fittest are most likely to get killed off.
Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.
I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is a struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world standsmoment by moment on the razor-edge ofdangerand must be fought forwhether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
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