Quotes with succumb

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• Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.

  Judicial opinions Roberts v. New York, 295 U.S. 264, 278 (1935).

  Benjamin Cardozo
  American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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• Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

  Harriet Martineau
  British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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• It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

  Original: Il nest pas honteux pour lhomme de succomber sous la douleur et il est honteux de succomber sous le plaisir.

  Pensees (1669)

  Blaise Pascal
  French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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• Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.

  Audre Lorde
  American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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• Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.

  Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960)

  Carl Gustav Jung
  Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• inconsistent
• superstition
• tough-minded
• individuals
• suggestive
• primitive

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