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“Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being.”

Years Humans May Three Asks Sex Human Beings Doubt Five Victory Slave No Doubt Adoption Grandchildren Counting Bans Homophobia Unspeakable Inexplicable My Grandchildren

Author:Jacob M. Appel

“Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.”

Humans Shows Human Beings Struggle Stage Victory Life Struggle

Author:Wayne Shorter

“There is something that can happen to every athlete and every human being; the instinct to slack off, to give in to pain, to give less than your best; the instinct to hope you can win through luck or through your opponent not doing his best, instead of going to the limit and past your limit where victory is always found. Defeating those negative instincts that are out to defeat us, is the difference between winning and losing - and we all face that battle every day.”

Giving Humans Happens Pain Past Faces Found Winning Differences Human Beings Victory Battle Limits Losing Negative Luck Instinct Defeat Athlete Opponents Winning And Losing You Can Win

Author:Jesse Owens

“In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in a global economy; we face problems like climate change that affect us all. The 7 billion human beings alive today belong to one human family. In the context that others' interests are in our interest and our interest is in their interest, the use of force is self-destructive.”

“Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do it, the more they prove the victory of the camera over the human being.”

Humans Memories Human Beings Information Produce Victory Prove Understood Cameras Photographer Documentaries Snaps

Book:Towards a Philosophy of Photography

Source: Towards a Philosophy of Photography

“Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.”

Humans Facts Might Winning Term Loses Human Beings Struggle Strength Victory Weakness Proof Outcomes Inner Strength Cowardice Continuing Short Term

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

Thinking Should Humans Hope Human Beings Compassion Victory Future Infinite Our Future Marvelous Human History My Future Succession Defiance Hope For The Future Hopeful Future

Book:You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

“Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.”

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Author:Bruce Catton

“What worries me though, is that after all those victories people don't see me as a human being anymore. I am not a machine, I have a heart beating in my chest -not an engine, there's blood in my veins- not oil. I know pain and fatigue. I can lose but I will strive to win everything.”

People Knows Humans Heart I Can Pain Winning Loses Human Beings Worry Blood Victory Machines Strive Oil Ass Chests Engines Bad Ass Veins Fatigue Heart Beat Heart Beating

Author:Evgeni Plushenko

“EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows and their joys, their victories, their revelations and their obligations alive, for re-celebration and re-dedication another year, another decade, another century, another eon.”

Years Humans Use Earth Joy Humanity Human Beings Alive Sadness Century Victory Sorrow Discovery Decades Obligation Revelations Celebration Dedication Earth Day Another Year

Author:Margaret Mead

“If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.”

Ifs Humans Facts Science Desire Winning Human Beings Clear Son Theory Victory Discovery Critics Workers Attractive Invites Hostile New Discoveries Retaining

Author:Francis Bacon

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice - is often the means of their regeneration.”

Source: Thoughts on parliamentary reform. Recent writers on reform. Bain's psychology. A few words on non-intervention. The contest in America. Austin on jurisprudence. Plato

“Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the direst necessityand, if compelled, will use themonly with the utmost restraint.Peace is his highest value.If the peace has been shattered,how can he be content?His enemies are not demons,but human beings like himself.He doesn't wish them personal harm.Nor does he rejoice in victory.How could he rejoice in victoryand delight in the slaughter of men?He enters a battle gravely,with sorrow and with great compassion,as if he were attending a funeral”

“Our revenge is to live. We may be hunted like animals but we will not become animals. We have all chosen this - to live free, like human beings, for as long as we can. Each day of freedom is a victory. And if we die trying to live, at least we die like human beings.”

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Author:Tuvia Bielski

“If everything is smooth sailing right from the beginning, we cannot become people of substance and character. By surmounting paining setbacks and obstacles, we can create a brilliant history of triumph that will shine forever. That is what makes life so exciting and enjoyable. In any field of endeavour, those who overcome hardships and grow as human beings are advancing towards success and victory in life.”

“Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to the platform. From there, it was higher than ever. There were only two ways down: the steps to defeat of the dive to victory. You stood on the edge, shivering in the hot sun, deathly afraid. At last you leaned too far forward, it was too late for retreat, and you dived. The high board was conquered, and you spent the rest of the day diving. Climbing a thousand high boards, we demolish fear, and turn into human beings.”

“To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand Utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”