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Image of Ann Druyan
People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say thats completely opposite of the truth.
- Ann Druyan
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Image of Henry Van Dyke
Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better.
- Henry Van Dyke
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Image of George Eliot
I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible.
- George Eliot
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Image of Kofi Annan
I've been around enough to realise that there are two things that once people have them, they don't want to give up, and it's extremely difficult to convince them to give up: one is privileges, and the other is subsidies.
- Kofi Annan
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Image of Jane Fonda
You shouldn't give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time with and take care of yourself.
- Jane Fonda
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Image of Eve Ensler
Looking at it, I started crying. Maybe it was knowing that I had to give up the fantasy, the enormous life consuming fantasy , that someone or something was going to do this for me – the fantasy that someone was coming to lead my life, to choose direction, to give me orgasms.
- Eve Ensler
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Image of Frederick Lenz
Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.
- Frederick Lenz
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Image of Jill Stein
In the words of Alice Walker, the biggest way people give up power is by not knowing we have it to start with. We have it: just to look at the power of fighting student debt or 25 million Latinos who learned that the Republicans are the party that hate and fear but Democrats are the party of people deportation and detention.
- Jill Stein
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Image of Kevin Durant
I know what to keep to myself. I know what I want to give up.
- Kevin Durant
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Image of Frederick Lenz
The real test on the path of love is are you willing to give up everything for your love?
- Frederick Lenz
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Image of F. Scott Fitzgerald
The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Image of Anthony D. Williams
Life is not about giving up or giving in. Life is about giving.
- Anthony D. Williams
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Image of Gustave Flaubert
I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the bellies of whales, gives up the ghost with a groan and then comes back to life three days later!
- Gustave Flaubert
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Image of Bobby Fischer
To get squares you have to give up squares.
- Bobby Fischer
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Image of Henry Giroux
Clearly, one does not have to give up being an academic, retreat from rigorous research, or renounce the importance of specialization in order to address major social issues. I don't think you give up theoretical rigor by writing in a way that addresses major social concerns and is at the same time accessible to wider informed general audiences.
- Henry Giroux
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Image of Henry Giroux
The future doesn't have to mimic the worst parts of the present. There are new ways of sharing information, and as long as they don't give up on the importance of politics, the future is certainly open.
- Henry Giroux
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Image of Wayne Dyer
Would I rather be right, or would I rather be kind?
- Wayne Dyer
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Image of T. Harv Eker
In my experience, getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100 percent of your effort, a never-give-up attitude and of course a rich mind-set.
- T. Harv Eker
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Image of George Eliot
Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.
- George Eliot
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Image of Fyodor Dostoevsky
And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Image of Eve Ensler
I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to anyone, but I've wondered if I just want to give up this world and live in the Congo and just be there. But I don't think that's what they need from me.
- Eve Ensler
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Image of Meister Eckhart
There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.
- Meister Eckhart
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Image of Wayne Dyer
Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser.
- Wayne Dyer
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of David Duchovny
I'm not going to give up. I can't give up. Not as long as the truth is out there.
- David Duchovny
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Image of Sigmund Freud
When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego which can only be described as a setting up of the object inside the ego, as it occurs in melancholia; the exact nature of this substitution is as yet unknown to us.
- Sigmund Freud
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Pope Francis
Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up.
- Pope Francis
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Image of Hannah Arendt
I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.
- Hannah Arendt
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Image of Bear Grylls
Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? is it the universe's way of reserving the best for those who can give the most? What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour.
- Bear Grylls
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Image of Stephen Fry
You should give up.' 'Why?' 'For one thing, you'll live longer.' 'Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.
- Stephen Fry
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Image of Morgan Freeman
The main thing about awards in movies is that they can serve as an economic surge for the film. If you're movie gets nominated for any award it does it a big favour. People might go and see it again... they won't give up on it.
- Morgan Freeman
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Image of Seth Godin
Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.
- Seth Godin
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Image of Jay Asher
Don't give up on me now. I'm sorry. I guess that's an odd thing to say. Because isn't that what I'm doing? Giving up?
- Jay Asher
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Image of Jane Goodall
Just remember--if you are really and truly determined to work with animals, somehow, either now or later, you will find a way to do it. But you have to want it desperately, work hard, take advantage of an opportunity--and never give up.
- Jane Goodall
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Image of Aristotle
The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.
- Aristotle
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Image of Jane Goodall
I never wanted to give up. I thought I might have to. Especially at the beginning when chimpanzees had never seen a white person before.They gave one look at me and ran away! They were scared, but eventually I got their trust.
- Jane Goodall
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
If we give up freedom for security, we are in danger of losing both.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Jane Goodall
Without the support of local people, you might as well give up because you can make all the noise you like, you can demarcate a national park, but if the people outside want to go creeping into a forest you really can't stop them. They've got to get a benefit.
- Jane Goodall
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Image of John Green
It always happened like this: he would look and look for the keys to Satan’s Hearse and then finally he’d just give up and say, “Fine. I’ll take the fugging bus,” and on his way out the door, he’d see the keys. Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus; Katherines appear when you start to disbelieve the world contains another Katherine; and, sure enough, the Eureka moment arrived just as he began to accept it would never come.
- John Green
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Image of Sia Furler
I'm trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. I'm willing to do that as an entertainer. But I'm not willing to give up my actual self. And the way the system is built up, there'll be a backlash soon. Just recently some people published 11 photos of Sia's face. It's a bummer for me because it's going to elevate my profile and make me more recognizable. But I don't look the same as I did when I used to have my photo taken. Music is for your ears, not your eyes, right? But film is for your eyes, and I would like to give you something.
- Sia Furler
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Image of Bear Grylls
The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me... and the more of these words I heard the smaller I always felt! But the truth is often very different... and for me to learn that ordinary me can achieve something extra-ordinary by giving that little bit extra, when everyone else gives up, meant the world to me and I really clung to it.
- Bear Grylls
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Sigmund Freud
One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.
- Sigmund Freud
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Image of Thomas Friedman
Syria is on the back end of basically a decade-long drought. Over the last decade, farmers and herders have been ravaged in Syria forcing them to give up and move to urban areas. This has put a huge strain on urban resources, and it's surely one of the reasons for the uprising there.
- Thomas Friedman
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Image of Seth Godin
Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.
- Seth Godin
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