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We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

~Cesar Chavez

Topics: Been Despair Draw Endure Forced Live Our Shall Strength Very Which

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From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

~Cesar Chavez

Topics: Depth Despair Dignity Fill Need Needs Organize Own People Problems Solve Strength Themselves Together Work Work Together

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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Amusing Boring Considered Despair Everything Inclination Least Less Necessary Oneself Than Work

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For every moment of triumph, there is an unequal and opposite feeling of despair. Take that iconic photograph of Muhammad Ali standing triumphantly over the prostrate, semiconscious wreckage of Sonny Liston. Great photo. Now think of Liston. Do the pleasure/pain calculus.

~Charles Krauthammer

Topics: Ali Calculus Despair Every Feeling Great Iconic Moment Muhammad Muhammad Ali Now Opposite Over Photo Photograph Standing Take Think Triumph Unequal

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What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

~Charles M. Blow

Topics: Concentrated Crime Degree Despair Discussing Few Few People Hopelessness Mention People Poverty Too Violence Which

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The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

~Charles W. Chesnutt

Topics: Despair Divine Heart Human Human Heart Image Kind Make Moment Mystery Next Our Reflection See Them Universe Us Workings

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Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

~Charlie Chaplin

Topics: Despair Indifference Mind Narcotic

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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

~Christopher Fry

Topics: Comedy Despair Escape Faith Narrow Truth

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If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Awareness Awful Beginning Brighter Coming Dark Despair Even Going Hope Much Occur Pit Profane Start Things You

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A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.

~Clare Balding

Topics: About Dark Dark Side Depths Despair Fear Know Looking Lot Side Want Your

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