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Letter "T" » The Urge
«True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.»
Author: Arthur Ashe
(Activist, Tennis Player)
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Heroism
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«Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.»
«The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.»
Author: Alfred Adler
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Inferiority
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agitation, conquest, emotional, experienced, inferiority, The Urge, urge, violent
«The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.»
«The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.»
«The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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«When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
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«They have made this their resting place and they sit at home, but the urge to depart is always there. This would be known as a lasting place of rest, only if they were to remain stable and unchanging.»
«If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway?»
Author: Will Rogers
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