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«It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.»
Author: Ben Stein
(Actor, Lawyer, Writer)
| About:
Defeat,
Life,
Mankind,
Spirit
| Keywords:
defeated, enter, finished, inevitable, surrenders, victorious
«It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself»
«It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.»
«It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief»
Author: Lionel Trilling
(Author, Critic, Teacher)
| About:
Art,
Belief,
Life
| Keywords:
disbelief, in suspension, suspension, suspension of disbelief
«It was our preparation, knowledge and experience that kept us alive.»
«It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Courage,
Knowledge,
Life,
Sex
| Keywords:
accorded, give forth, In Humanity, kills, raised, risking, superiority, The Animal
«It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made»
«It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants»
«It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
compensations, helping, sincerely
«It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Life,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
one hour, persons, risking
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