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postpones
«At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.»
Author: Georges Bataille
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assistance, confront, core, give in, guaranteed, indefinitely, in general, leap, postpones, recoil, recoils, The Object of
«Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ''coaches'' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.»
Author: Herbert Kaufman
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Failure
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ambition, coached, coaches, persistence, postponed, postpones, postponing
«Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.»
Author: Joshua Loth Liebman
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Maturity
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immediate, maturity, postpones, postponing, term, values
«How often my fear and ambivalence are rooted in what somebody else may think. But I need not present my actions, my words, myself for somebody else's approval. And basing my decisions on somebody else's approval or making my own approval contingent on somebody else's only postpones what I really want.»
Author: Jan Denise
(Author, Columnist, Speaker)
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ambivalence, Basing, contingent, contingent on, postpones, rooted
«Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.»
«He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.»
«Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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although, martyrdom, postponed, postpones, postponing, preferred, prepared