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Spirit
«It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.»
Author: Ben Stein
(Actor, Lawyer, Writer)
| About:
Defeat,
Life,
Mankind,
Spirit
| Keywords:
defeated, enter, finished, inevitable, surrenders, victorious
«It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true»
«I look at an ant and l see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.»
Author: Miriam Makeba
| About:
Racism,
Spirit
| Keywords:
African, cope, cope with, endowed, native, racism, South, South African, South Africans, The Weight
«In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.»
«I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me.»
Author: Princess Diana
(Princess)
| About:
Love,
People,
Spirit
| Keywords:
died, have died, spirit world
«I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Life,
Spirit
| Keywords:
Johnson, Taverns, trifling
«I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.»
«If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Death and dying,
Relationships,
Spirit
| Keywords:
Brothers and Sisters, physical death, redemptive, sisters
«It takes a long time to become young.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Imagination,
Life,
Spirit,
Youth
| Keywords:
long time
«It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Ignorance,
Spirit
| Keywords:
barrier, infantile, separates, superstition, virginity