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«Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.»
«He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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antagonist, antagonists, helper, nerves, sharpening, sharpens, skill, strengthens, wrestled, wrestles
«Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficu»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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Adversity
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antagonist, antagonists, helper, instructor, instructors, nerves, severe, sharpens, strengthens, wrestled, wrestles
«I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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clamor, clamoring, contest, grayness, Great Fear, impalpable, spectators, underfoot, unexciting, wrestled, wrestles
«For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.»
Author: Bible
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flesh, Flesh and Blood, principalities, principality, rulers, spiritual world, the darkness, The Power of Darkness, wickedness, wrestle, wrestled, wrestles
«ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Politics
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statesman, The Statesman, wrestles
«If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such»
«If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
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Politics
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coil, coiled, Coils, encircle, encircled, encircles, encircling, snake, take part, wrestle, wrestled, wrestles