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«If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.»
Author: Cavett Robert
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«At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.»
Author: Cesare Pavese
(Critic, Novelist, Poet, Translator)
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breached, Commit Suicide, defenses, longing, periods, protest
«Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.»
Author: Edward Hall
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bubble, for short, mobile, organism, organisms, penetrate, periods, territoriality
«For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.»
«. . . there are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.»
«And lastly, let us provide in our Constitution for its revision at stated periods»
Author: Thomas Babington
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Constitution
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lastly, periods, revision, revisions, stated
«Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.»
«Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
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Happiness
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interval, periods, unhappiness
«All that stirring of old instincts which at stated periods drives men out from the sounding cities to forest and plain to kill things by chemically propelled leaden pellets, the blood lust, the joy to kill--all this was Buck's, only it was infinitely more intimate. He was ranging at the head of the pack, running the wild thing down, the living meat, to kill with his own teeth and wash his muzzle to the eyes in warm blood.»
Author: Jack London
(Novelist, Writer)
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«he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.'»
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