#contend

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder? ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

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No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always best not to do this alone! ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

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To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction. ↗

— Chaim Potok

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Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change. ↗

— Tony Campolo

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Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end. ↗

— Robert Herrick

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We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax. ↗

— Whitey Herzog

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One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind. ↗

— Jean Kerr

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I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat. ↗

— Allen Klein

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When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters. ↗

— George Savile

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Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

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