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- Nov 07, 2020
Contending Quotes
Sharp lines on rivalry, conflict, and the will to compete
Contending captures the tension of opposing forces, whether it plays out inside a troubled mind or on a playoff-bound team. These quotes explore what it means to strive against real stakes, echoing themes found in our challenges quotes collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.
- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020