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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it per

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. – George Eliot

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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. – George Eliot

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The best augury of a mans success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. – George Eliot

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. – Indira Gandhi

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. – Arthur Schnitzler

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations. – Patrick Henry Pearse

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced. – J.B.S. Haldane

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