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When life puts you through a tumbler, it's your choice whether you come out polished or crushed.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
When life puts you to the test, it's up to you whether you emerge refined or shattered.
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Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.
Jefferson Davis
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When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.
Jennie Finch
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We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.
Jim Caviezel
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Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.
Maggie Stiefvater
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It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.
John Malkovich
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If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.
Mahatma Gandhi
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He who once became aware of the power of Solidarity and who breathed the air of freedom will not be crushed.
Lech Walesa
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Those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Tommy Wallach
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Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him.
Francis Parkman
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If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?
Bill Hybels
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You didn't beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!
Simon Cowell
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Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
Germaine Greer
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Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
Imogen Poots
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By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days?
Cassandra Clare
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Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole.
Marcus Aurelius
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Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.
Baroness Orczy
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Grace,” I said, very softly. “Say something.” Sam,” she said, and I crushed her to me.
Maggie Stiefvater
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...crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.
Jim Crace
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I would like to give you more of my heart,but there is nothing more I can give you. I gave you everything and you crushed it into bits.
Samantha Hunt
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I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed.
Drake
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The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.
Samuel Rogers
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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
Francis Bacon
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Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.
Margaret Thatcher
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They were snobs or idiots or both...yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness.
Jennifer Egan
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...(O)ne thing that the world can count on is that we will not allow Israel to be crushed.
George W. Bush
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Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor.
Sam Altman
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It was a very hard thing to have crushed the heart, and the hopes, of a friend.
Kristin Cashore
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Who would dream that one can love without being crushed under the weight of it?
Clare Vanderpool
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The extremist, isolationist policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been rejected and crushed
Romano Prodi
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Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.
Marcus Aurelius
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We're all just a part of this large, spiraling, constantly fluid hierarchy and changing. At some points in your life, you feel crushed by that, depending on who you come in contact with.
Victoria Chang
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I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.
Ma Jian
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When crushed to your knees, it is best to dig in your heels.
Wes Fesler
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She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.
Isabel Allende
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I like being an employee. I like making somebody happy - and if they're not, then I'm crushed.
Joaquin Phoenix