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    29 July 2009
    “She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle…she fails in the end but there’s something beautiful and even heroic in her rebellion.”
    Kate Winslet, Little Children

    decision struggle movie

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    21 July 2009
    “It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.”
    Tom Hanks, A League of Their Own

    movie hard work struggle

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    20 July 2009
    “You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.”
    Rwandan Proverb

    proverb self struggle

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    01 July 2009
    “When you struggle, that’s when you realize what you’re made of, and that’s when you realize what the people around you can do. You learn who you’d want to take with you to a war, and who you’d only want to take to lunch.”
    Chamique Holdsclaw

    struggle friendship

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    23 June 2009
    “By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven’t yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it …”
    Vincent van Gogh

    hard work perserverence struggle

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    10 June 2009
    “Whoever causes the loss of a single soul is as though he caused the loss of a world entire, and whoever saves one is as though he saved a universe.”
    The Talmud

    life and death sacrifice struggle

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    27 May 2009
    “Well, we’re doin’ mighty fine, I do suppose /
    In our streak of lightnin’ cars and fancy clothes /
    But just so we’re reminded of the ones who are held back /
    Up front there ought ‘a be a Man In Black /”
    Johnny Cash, Man In Black

    Lyrics struggle

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    24 May 2009
    “Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.”
    Miguel de Cervantes

    self struggle

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    08 May 2009
    “I was swimming. I was fighting. And then I thought, just for a second, I thought ‘What’s the point?’ And I let go. I stopped fighting.”
    Ellen Pompeo, Grey’s Anatomy

    tv letting go struggle

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    03 April 2009
    “A riot is the language of the unheard.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

    revolution struggle