Quotes with contending

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• But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.

  ― David Herbert Lawrence
  English writer (1885 - 1930)
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• Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

  ― Brian Tracy
  Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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• Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.

  ― Angela Davis
  American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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• There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.

  ― T. S. Eliot
  British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• homelessness
• unemployment
• illiteracy
• eviscerate
• relegated
• illness

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