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Quotes on Strife

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Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
PlutarchRead
Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path... But each of us - experiments of the depths - strives toward his own destiny. We can understand one another; but each of us is able to interpret himself to himself alone.
Hermann HesseRead
Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.
Terry PratchettRead
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
John CalvinRead
We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn't forced to be the systems integrator.
Steve JobsRead
I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can offer, and they temper you into something unbreakable because Lord knows they'll try -- without let up -- to break you.
Mary KarrRead
I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryRead
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Eric HofferRead
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Walter Savage LandorRead

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