Quote by Thomas Mann
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions grac

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph. – Thomas Mann

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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. – Thomas Mann

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Beauty
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Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. – Thomas Mann

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I have a treadmill, and I work out with my trainer, Julie Diamond, as often as possible. Shes so positive. – Emily Deschanel

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Im taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive. – Pitbull

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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side. – Isaac Hayes

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