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Tag Name "Thwarts" (9)

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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
Andre Gide
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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
John Lancaster Spalding
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Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man's destructive tendencies.
Manly Hall
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There are things within the culture that absolutely enrage me, and for me it is sacred rage. But it's not just peculiar to Mormonism - it's any patriarchy that I think stops, thwarts, or denies our creativity.
Terry Tempest Williams
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All human beings have a right, and duty, to be joyful. Anything that thwarts this spiritual human right goes against the very purpose of human being. Spirituality mandates us to wage a relentless war to eradicate these forces of oppression and disempowerment.
Agnivesh
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The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would rather remain unconscious. That is to say, God wants to become man, but not quite.
Carl Jung
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As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives.
John O. Brennan
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The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
Viktor E. Frankl