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"Why should we be in such desperate hast to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out." »Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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"desperate affairs require desperate remedies." »Horatio Nelson
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." »Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"
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"Tempt not a desperate man." »Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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"A thing can be true and still be desperate folly." »Richard Adams, _Watership Down_
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"It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." »Henry David Thoreau
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"In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest." »Titus Livius
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"My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised." »Jesse Louis Jackson
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"There is not half so much danger in the desperate sword of a known foe as in the smooth insinuations of a pretended friend." »R Chamberlain
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"It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance." »Thomas Jefferson
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"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime." »Erich Fromm
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"My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober." »G. K. Chesterton
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""My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."" »G. K. Chesterton
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"Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress." »Quentin Crisp
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"The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen." »Alice Walker
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"The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility." »Eric Hoffer
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"There are moments where the mighty death feels itself desperate too! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer." »Mark Twain
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"Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love." »Delmore Schwartz
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"Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity." »George Frost Kennan
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"The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul that moment created the resilience that leaders need." »Warren Bennis
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"...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line."" »Tom Robbins, _Skinny Legs and All_, 1990, p. 305.
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