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giving up

«Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.»
«For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.»
Author: Michelle Pfeiffer | About: Celebrity | Keywords: anonymity, giving up
«Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.»
Author: Colin Powell | Keywords: giving up
«Giving up witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible»
«Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.»
«Endowed with purified intellect, subduing the mind with resolve, turning away from sound and other objects of the senses, giving up likes and dislikes.»
«Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Giving | Keywords: easiest, giving up
«Be confirmed in the faith that He is the doer of every deed. That is the genuine giving up .»
«I have been stressing the vital importance of people giving up this habit of eating non-vegetarian food even from my boyhood days. Meat eating fosters animal qualities in man making him descend to the demoniac level; it is a heart-rending sight to see cows being slaughtered to serve as food for man.»
«Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference. They would like to jump down into their stomachs and digest the food and shovel the shit out.»

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