• Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

  Thornton T. Munger
  American scientist and environmentalist
  

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Subjects in these quotes:

1. overcoming
2. attainment
3. sympathy
4. struggle
5. selfish
6. toward

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it. by : Thornton T. Munger

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