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I have been contending all my life, and always with God. -- Lincoln Steffens
Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next. -- Jones Very
I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me. -- Phil Mickelson
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses. -- Seamus Heaney
I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week. -- Lee Westwood
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
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind. -- H. G. Wells
To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction. -- Chaim Potok
If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder? -- Robert Dale Owen
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it. -- Joseph Lancaster
Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying 'greeting cards' attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Pride is self contending with God for preeminence. -- Stephen Charnock
What Saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it? -- St. Jerome
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties. -- Abigail Adams
From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow. -- Joseph Addison
We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life. -- J. C. Ryle
Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity. -- Robert A. Burton
Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light. -- William Shakespeare
I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life. -- Joyce Carol Oates
What multitudes, O Lord, do this day join hands with Pelagius in contending for free will and in fighting ... free grace. -- Thomas Bradwardine
History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people. -- Mildred Cable
Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases. -- Abraham Lincoln
The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man. -- Edmund Burke
Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence. -- Thomas Paine
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Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse. To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing, As in a foundering ship. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If this Punic war was carried on without any effusion of blood, it was owing much less to the moderation than to the weakness of the contending prelates. -- Edward Gibbon
There is a great deal of quarrelling in the houses, and contending for power and authority; and the second wife is against the first wife, perhaps, in some instances. -- Heber C. Kimball
While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this crisis for the fate of the British Empire. -- John Burgoyne
Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth. -- George Washington
Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way. -- Laozi
I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community. -- Theodore Roosevelt
A people contending for life and liberty are seldom disposed to look with a favorable eye upon either men or measures whose passions, interests or consequences will clash with those inestimable objects. -- George Washington
Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists. -- Walter Pater

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