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«Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.»
Author: Wilma Rudolph
(Runner)
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Defeat,
Winning
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champion, championed, crushing, pick, pick up, someday, undefeated, winning
«I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.»
Author: Annie Dillard
(Author)
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appalls, astonishingly, bountiful, careless, crushing, extravagance, extravagances, fecundity, include, teeming with, ubiquitous
«Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation.»
Author: Frank Sinatra
(Actor, Singer)
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Fear
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crushing, debilitates, debilitating, defeating, Or logic, self-defeating, sicken, sickened, sickening, sickens
«Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.»
«I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her or know about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally and personally.»
Author: Mike Tyson
(Boxer)
| About:
Chance,
Children,
Mothers
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Coming Home, crushing, emotionally, happy chance, professionally, proud of, Talk to Her
«Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.»
«Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
crushed, crushing, crush out, happening, on the side, oppressed, placed
«Life is just one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead.»
«Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Ideas,
Religion
| Keywords:
achievements, crushing, defending, sprung, supremacy
«Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.»
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