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paralyzes
«Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.»
Author: Bernice Johnson Reagon
(Historian, Musician)
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Challenge,
Life
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Challenges, discover, help, help out, paralyze, paralyzes, paralyzing, supposed, supposes
«Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.»
Author: Denis Leary
(Actor)
| Keywords:
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«Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.»
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Bitterness
| Keywords:
anoints, bitterness, blinds, empower, empowering, empowers, heals, imprisons, paralyzes, releases, sicken, sickened, sickening, sickens, sours, sweetened, sweetens
«Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.»
Author: James Harvey Robinson
| About:
Politics
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campaigns, cerebration, designedly, distract, distracts, endeavor, issues, muster, musters, muster up, normally, orgies, paralyze, paralyzes, paralyzing, political campaign, political power, slight
«Paralyze resistance with persistence»
Author: Woody Hayes
(Football coach)
| About:
Perseverance
| Keywords:
paralyze, paralyzes, paralyzing, persistence, resistance
«It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality»
Author: Emma Goldman
| About:
Superstition
| Keywords:
detrimental, enervated, enervating, Hearts of, paralyzes, paralyzing, superstition
«The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Fear
| Keywords:
advance, convert, efforts, nameless, needed, paralyzes, paralyzing, retreat, terror, unjustified, unreasoning
«If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that th»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Reason
| Keywords:
anxiety, concealment, considers, every quarter, fashion, goodwill, grateful, insofar, paralyzed, paralyzes, paralyzing, quarters, sets, three-quarter, timid, unfruitful
«In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
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paralyzes
«Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Body,
Machines
| Keywords:
defend, encumber, encumbered, encumbering, encumbers, machine, organized, paralyze, paralyzes, paralyzing, remedies, unhindered