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• I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Powerful, Shantaram, Endless

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.299, Macmillan

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• I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.

  Richard Yates

  Heart, Stories, Humans

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• Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now arrived at a stage in life so rich in new perceptions that cannot be transmitted to those at another stage - one feels at the same time full of so much gentleness and so much despair - the enigma of this life grows, grows, drowns one and crushes one, then all of a sudden in a supreme moment of light one becomes aware of the sacred.

  May Sarton

  Light, Perception, Despair

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• Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether a torturer uses it to crush somebody's skull.

  Noam Chomsky

  Technology, Skulls, House

  "Noam Chomsky on the Purpose of Education" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. March 13, 2012.

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• Debt never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation...it is never laid off work...it buys no food; it wears no clothes; it is unhoused... it has neither weddings nor births nor deaths; it has no love, no sympathy; it is as hard and soulless as a granite cliff. Once in debt, it is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it...and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Holiday, Sleep, Sunday

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• The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

  Socrates

  Life, Way, Improving

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• Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Memories, Careers

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• Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.

  Eric Liddell

  Mean, Doe, Spirit

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• Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility--one of the crushing problems of our time.

  Jules Feiffer

  Advice, Patterns, Safe

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• The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

  Ann Richards

  Motivational, Success, Play

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• If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Change, Book, Reading

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

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• The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.

  Warren Buffett

  Events, Truth Is, Happened

  "Before They Were Titans, Moguls and Newsmakers, These People Were...Rejected" by Sue Shellenbarger, www.wsj.com. March 24, 2010.

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• Truth, purity, and unselfishness wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Able, Faces, Sun

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.202, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color - oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples.

  Anna Godbersen

  Best Friend, Sunset, First Love

  Anna Godbersen (2014). “The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor”, p.51, Harper Collins

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• You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.

  Paul Auster

  World, This World

  Paul Auster (2016). “Collected Novels Volume Four”, p.218, Faber & Faber

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• Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mistake, Believe, Worry

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• Kindness is a much more crushing force than anger.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Kindness, Force

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• The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and that anyone who lays violent hands on man here, is infringing eternal laws, and taking upon himself superhuman authority, which will eventually crush him.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Hands, Law

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• You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Thinking, Ideas, Suppressing

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on
  the heel that crushes it.

  John Arnott

  Forgiveness, Rose, Scent

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• Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Exercise, Men, Self

  "Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, The Archipelago of Arrogance". www.tomdispatch.com. April 13, 2008.

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• Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Competition, Advancement, Improvement

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• Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that I'm interested in; that is, theatre that moves an audience. You have the opportunity to literally impact the lives of people if they work on material that has integrity. But today, most actors simply want to be famous. Well, being an actor was never supposed to be about fame and money. Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition.

  Sanford Meisner

  Life, Religious, Integrity

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• A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather than by violence. He is a man who would rather be unsuccessful in convincing another man by argument than successful in crushing him by force, by intimidation and threats, or even by persuasive propaganda.

  Karl Popper

  Successful, Men, Decision

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.557, Routledge

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• As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain.

  Arthur Symons

  Love, Brain, Perfume

  Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”

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