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“A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.”

Men God Dream Order Accepting Moral Conscience Gains Curse Moral Conscience

Book:A Faulkner perspective: a companion-guide to the limited first edition of the Selected letters of William Faulkner

Source: A Faulkner perspective: a companion-guide to the limited first edition of the Selected letters of William Faulkner

“But all three of them had had to lose things in order to gain other things. Will had lost his shell and his cool and his distance, and he felt scared and vulnerable, but he got to be with Rachel; and Fiona had lost a big chunk of Marcus, and she got to stay away from the casualty ward; and Marcus had lost himself, and got to walk home from school with his shoes on.”

Home Bigs School Order Three Lost Felt Loses Walks Gains Distance Shoes Scared Vulnerable Shells Casualties Chunks

Book:About a Boy

Source: About a Boy

“And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.”

Source: This Lullaby

“We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow, but without falling into the trap of the power we gain through that struggle, because we know that power is worthless. Finally, we must accept that our eternal soul is, at this moment, caught in the web of time with all its opportunities and its limitations.”

Ifs Knows Soul Moments Order Fall Opportunity Grows Understanding Accepting Struggle Eternal Conscious Gains Caught Limitation Traps Worthless

Author:Paulo Coelho

“It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.”

Ifs Matter Order Difficult Friendship Animal Habit Gains Cat Philosophical Slave Affection Worthy Sentiments Extravagant Tenacious Methodical Neatness

Author:Theophile Gautier

“Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.”

Children Order Poor Money Gains Our Children Good Things Insane Your Children Estates Seventies Funny Money

Author:Woody Allen

“Visitation of God's presence is a byproduct of worship. However, we don't worship in order to gain His presence. He is worthy to be worshipped whether or not He chooses to show up.”

Shows Order Worship Gains Worthy God's Presence Visitation

Author:John Wimber

“[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.”

People Men Long Done Wisdom Might Science Order Found Enjoy Knowledge Duty Hard Work Paper Long Time Discovery Gains Praise Remarkable Craving Pursued Ingenious

Author:Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

“If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.”

Source: History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy

“When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to ignore the skeptics.”

Order Needed Understood Commitment Gains Perseverance Humanitarian Credibility Skeptic Perserverance Unwavering Patience And Perseverance

Author:Bianca Jagger

“The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.”

Men Done Bigs Success Order Leadership Risk He Man Gains Not Afraid Big Things Risk-taking Overcoming Failure Risks In Life

Author:B. C. Forbes

“To deny being lovers in order to gain something.That can result in a much worse situation than one can imagine.”

Order Results Situation Imagine Lovers Drama Gains Deny

Author:Jung Woo

“A person who sins neither in thought nor deed, and is fair and just, gains enormous courage and strength. As a leader, you need courage born of integrity in order to be capable of powerful leadership. To achieve this courage, you must search your heart, and make sure your conscience is clear and your behavior is beyond reproach.”

Needs Heart Persons Order Born Leadership Sin Powerful Leader Courage Clear Achieve Integrity Behavior Capable Conscience Gains Fairs Deeds Enormous Reproach

Author:Konosuke Matsushita

“Zionism is only around 100 years old. It is the transformation from religion to nationalism, to materialism created by non-religious Jews who hated their religion. The reason why they use the name Israel, the Star of David, hijacking, stealing the identity of Judaism and the Jewish people is in order to gain a legitimacy for their existence that should lead people to say, 'oh, it is God given to them' and that they should use fear and intimidate people from speaking out against their actions because they will call those that do anti Semitic; it couldn't be anything further from the Truth.”