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Nothing[...] will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.
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Chapter 6.

 

Samuel Johnson

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Paul Karl Feyerabend

 

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Abraham Lincoln

 

And are not the temperate exactly in the same case? They are temperate because they are intemperate--which may seem to be a contradiction, but is nevertheless the sort of thing which happens with this foolish temperance. For there are pleasures which they must have, and are afraid of losing; and therefore they abstain from one class of pleasures because they are overcome by another: and whereas intemperance is defined as "being under the domination of pleasure," they overcome only because they are overcome by pleasure.

 

Socrates

 

While I am watching over you,
no great need will overcome you.
be mindful of the name of the Trinity
And none shall overcome you.

 

Taliesin

 

... a man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.

 

David Gemmell