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• If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.

  Maxim Gorky

  Men, People, Soul

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• I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very well indeed. My ancestors once owned slaves, and it is in my lineage to work closely with the black community. However, just because they were freed over a century ago doesn’t mean they can now be freeloaders. They need to be told to work hard, and the incentives just aren’t there for them anymore. When I’m president I plan to work closely with the black community to bring a sense of pride and work ethic back into view for them.

  Mitt Romney

  Hard Work, Mean, Pride

  "Mitt Romney: I Can Relate To Black People, My Ancestors Once Owned Slaves" by S.Wood, www.freewoodpost.com.

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• It's hard being Thom Yorke. You have to get up every morning and look at that face and not shoot at it with a gun.

  Thom Yorke

  Morning, Gun, Looks

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• Us on hard drugs? That would be horrible. We'd probably end up sounding like Bryan Adams.My girlfriend has this quote in her sketchbook: Remain orderly in your life so you can be free and chaotic in your work. I think basically you lose it when you destroy your brain or destroy yourself emotionally or burn yourself up.

  Thom Yorke

  Girlfriend, Thinking, Drug

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• There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

  David Mamet

  Hard Work, Talent, Enough

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• The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Dark, Lakes, Color

  Wassily Kandinsky (1955). “Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912”

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• We were just amazed we were putting out a record. We were, and are, still learning. But we've never cared much for professionalism as long as the energy was there. Like our live shows: We're out of tune and use a lot of feedback. That's not on purpose or because we don't care, we're just musically and rhythmically retarded and we play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough.

  Kurt Cobain

  Guitar, Play, Long

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• I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

  PJ Harvey

  Blessed, Inspiration, Trying

  Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. February 15, 2011.

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• There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.

  John Grisham

  Trials, Judgment, Fair Trial

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• Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Hard Work, Today, Judgment

  Condoleezza Rice (2011). “No Higher Honour”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

  Alfred Bester

  Adventure, Dying, Age

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50 years, I faced the next page defenseless and unprepared. Writing for me was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.

  Philip Roth

  Morning, Jobs, Real

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• It's not enough to be talented. It's not enough to work hard and to study late into the night. You must also become intimately aware of the methods you use to reach your decisions.

  Garry Kasparov

  Hard Work, Night, Decision

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.16, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Snape is vindictive, he's cruel. He's not a big man. But he loves. I like him, but I'd also like to slap him hard.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Vindictive, Bigs

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• A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world has not been made in that way. Perhaps, however, within the self there might come a resonance, the awareness of having done something difficult, of having done . . . something.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Impact, Self, Needs

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2005). “The Last Light of the Sun”, p.335, Penguin

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• Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in

  Sandra Cisneros

  Doors, Bricks, Crumbling

  Sandra Cisneros (2013). “The House on Mango Street”, p.26, Vintage

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• Another of the hard things about being in a war, grandchildren, is that although there are times of quiet when the fighting has stopped, you know you will soon be fighting again. Those quiet times give you the chance to think about what has happened. Some of it you would rather not think about, as you remember the pain and the sorrow. You also have time to worry about what will happen when you go into battle again.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Pain, Fear, War

  Joseph Bruchac (2006). “Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two”, p.89, Penguin

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• I never thought I was the most beautiful model out there or the most sexy woman, but I was a hard worker

  Carol Alt

  Beautiful, Sexy, Hard Work

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.

  Edward Bellamy

  Men, World, Poverty

  Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward 2000-1887”, p.261, Edward Bellamy

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• Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

  James T. Farrell

  Mother

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• Most of my fans are too sensitive. I’m a cruel and cold and hard person. I’ve been abused in every way you can imagine. Save your tears. I lost my sensitivity. You embarrass me when you cry.

  Mike Tyson

  Boxing, Tears, Way

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• I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

  Mike Tyson

  Boxing, Black, Knows

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• We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load.

  Malcolm X

  Mistake, Struggle, Men

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• If you practice hard, you can win every battle.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Motivational, Winning, Practice

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• God is giving a plan I think to me that is not really a plan. The problem is that I think the plan that the Lord would have us follow is hard for people to understand. Because of my track record with you who have been here for a long time. Because of my track record with you, I beg of you to help me get this message out, and I beg of you to pray for clarity on my part.

  Glenn Beck

  Thinking, Long, People

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