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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. Mao Zedong
Nature Thought Hundred Schools Contend Bloom Flowers
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. Winston Churchill
Man Prosperity Try Nation Lift Bucket Like Himself Contend Up Itself Handle Trying Tax Standing
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Enemy Luxury Own Our Criminality Folly Contend Within Gates
It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul. Heraclitus
Soul Heart Whatever Cost Wishes Contend Against Hard Buys Desire
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. Baltasar Gracian
Man Anger Lose Nothing Never Contend Who
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people. Charles Trevelyan
Character Selfish People Evil Moral Moral Evil Physical Contend Real Famine Which Turbulent Perverse
While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life. Josh McDowell
Life Future God Alone Loneliness Too Much Guilt Promises Pain Too Our Perfect Resurrection Perfect Life New Contend Leave While Loves Us Much Present Present Life
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession. Martin Luther
God Satan Burden Will Beast Possession Wills Wishes Contend Nor Goes Choose Rider Riders
I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering. Kay Redfield Jamison
Depression Suffering Anxiety Whatever Sense Think Bipolar Severe One Thing Mental Mental Illness Had Fair Fair Amount Contend Deal Personal Anybody Whether Illness Actually Thing Amount Resilience
I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free. William Henry Harrison
Free Strongest Most Contend Governments Which
The Bible has multiple accounts of people who were born with various conditions and in various states of existence, only to meet Jesus and be healed or delivered from whatever was their concern. Truly, there isn't a human ever born into this life without having to contend with one issue or another along life's journey. Alveda King
Life Journey Bible People Whatever Meet States Born Having Only Various Delivered Along Healed Concern Contend Another Without Issue Were Truly Existence Conditions Accounts Human Who Multiple Ever Jesus
Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land. Mao Zedong
Culture Progress Thought Our Hundred Promoting Schools Policy Contend Sciences Blossom Arts Land Letting Flourishing Flowers
Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore. Russell M. Nelson
Simple Matters Starts Strife Neighbors Ourselves More Individual Wrong Between Countries Over Like Sore Contend Within Contention Does Spreading Infect Begin Often Nations Right Right And Wrong
To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital. Andrew J. Bernstein
Life You Emotions Events Overcome Wife Job Husband Parents Believe Think Kids Out Responsible Vital Something Boss Miss Partly Contend Bullets Account Bank Bank Account Body Your Even Stressful
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. Charles Dickens
World Reflect Every Baby Pleasant Pleasant Thing Complete Those Degeneration Born Finer Contend Answer Than Gradual Human Who Human Species Species Thing Last
If the nose has become a deeply disillusioned and grief-stricken organ in the modern world, then what of the ear? The poor little ear - such an innocent, intelligent and sensitive creature; in these times of such flagrant sonic brutality, the sense within the ear has much to contend with. Michael Leunig
World Innocent Become Sense Organ Brutality Sonic Contend Within Intelligent Times Flagrant Modern Nose Disillusioned Modern World Sensitive Little Poor Then Much Creature Deeply Ear
It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious. Adam McKay
Funny News Confusion Hilarious Channels See Contend Sources Get American Junk Just Different Creates Specific
One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that. Aimee Mann
You Business Made Past Way One Of The Things Rather Uncomfortable Idea Clearly Couple Contend How Gotten Years Lot Than Being Really Appear Things Last
The idea that one might use art for 'instrumental' reasons tends to set off alarm bells at the heart of the cultural elite, who contend that it's not a pill, that it shouldn't be asked to perform some specific function, especially something as egocentric as to 'cheer you up' or to 'make you a more empathetic person.' Alain de Botton
Art You Heart Some Something More Tends Empathetic Idea Perform Cheer Instrumental Make Contend Pill Cultural Off Up Person Egocentric Might Asked Use Who Reasons Function Specific Alarm Bells Elite Set
I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat. Allen Klein
Adversity You Defeat Laugh Only Contend Without Deal Essential Setbacks
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with. Angela Carter
Future Nothingness Say Those Must Hopes Hypothesis Contend Pin Which Your Now Here
Friendly governments do not act so as to undermine the national security of their friends, and do not presume to know better than their friends how they should contend with the many challenges they face. The Swedish government would do well to rethink its intention to act in this way towards its friend Israel. Avigdor Lieberman
Government Challenges Better Face National Way Presume Security Would Rethink Towards Know Well Undermine Contend How Israel Friend Governments Friendly Friends Than National Security Intention Swedish Should Act Many
We are all dwellers on this one small earth; we live one life, die one death; we have the same difficulties to contend with; we ought in common to fight the foes of ignorance and wrong. Charles Glover Barkla
Life Death Ignorance Fight Live Difficulties Ought Earth Foes Small Wrong Contend Die Same Common
Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea. Chrystia Freeland
Equality Radical Worrying One Thing About More Idea Contend Altogether Different Poor Growth Thing Necessary
I am attached to the west coast of Scotland - it's gorgeous to look at and challenging. You have to contend with the possibility of being blown away or rained on. And in the summer months you can be eaten alive by midges. Clive Anderson
You Gorgeous Summer Months Alive Possibility Eaten Attached Look Contend Am West West Coast Scotland Blown Blown Away Being Coast Away Challenging Rained
The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts. David Leavitt
Writing World Living Paper Pleasure Having Unreliable Adult Generating Bouncing Term Counts Make Contend Sheer Ball Boy His Very Models Artist Represents Stories Which Public Little Public Image Image Competitive Two
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