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One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind (Contend Quotes)
I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat (Contend Quotes)
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words (Contend Quotes)
I know I’m good enough to contend in each and every major I play (Contend Quotes)
I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It’s this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way (Contend Quotes)
I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the massive diversion of parental attention, and the consequences of being compelled to care for their brother after I died. I wanted a genetically perfect baby, and because that was something I could control, I chose to end his life (Contend Quotes)
I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other (Contend Quotes)
All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment (Contend Quotes)
That no generally applicable law of the formulation and development of hybrids has yet been successfully formulated can hardly astonish anyone who is acquainted with the extent of the task and who can appreciate the difficulties with which experiments of this kind have to contend (Contend Quotes)
I contend that the problem with transsexualism would best be served by morally mandating it out of existence (Contend Quotes)
The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form (Contend Quotes)
The individual who cultivates grievances, and who is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to the education of time and of development... One does not argue or contend with the foul miasma that settles over stagnant water; one leaves it and climbs to a higher region, where the air is pure and the sunshine fair (Contend Quotes)
In temptations against chastity, the spiritual masters advise us, not so much to contend with the bad thought, as to turn the mind to some spiritual, or, at least, indifferent object. It is useful to combat other bad thoughts face to face, but not thoughts of impurity (Contend Quotes)
I would contend that we place no other value above the right to be free. We will die for our freedom. In fact, we believe freedom is sufficiently important that we will even die so that others around the globe might be free (Contend Quotes)
Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All over the world, activists believe in the utility of these tools and take steps to use them accordingly. And the governments they contend with think social media tools are powerful, too, and are willing to harass, arrest, exile, or kill users in response (Contend Quotes)
No matter where we come from or where we’re going, we’ve all got memories to contend with, and it’s always best not to do this alone! (Contend Quotes)
Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation (Contend Quotes)
It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn’t purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and, in every sense, rewarding way (Contend Quotes)
People who contend with stressful situations regularly detect more opportunities of this nature than people who are living in pampered circumstances (Contend Quotes)
Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time (Contend Quotes)
Will any one, save the most bigoted, contend, that it is not certain gain to humanity to spread unbelief in the terrible doctrine that eternal torment is the probable fate of the great majority of the human family? (Contend Quotes)
Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change (Contend Quotes)
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with (Contend Quotes)
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend (Contend Quotes)
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last (Contend Quotes)
Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It’s not the fight that crowns us, but the end (Contend Quotes)
Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land (Contend Quotes)
Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state (Contend Quotes)
A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war (Contend Quotes)
How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend? (Contend Quotes)