Ascendancy Quote by Suzanne Massie

“When pain has been constant, it has its own momentum and laws. The vital thing is to break its ascendancy over the mind.”

Suzanne Massie

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When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

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Remember back then we thought about al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and a few other places? well, we've seen al Qaeda metastasize. It is now a global scourge. And you have the ascendancy of ISIL. The combination of those two groups -- their appeal to the lone wolfs and we see them acting in Belgium and in France and…

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“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”

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The dynamism and freedom that characterizes the West is the product of Christianity's reforming itself and moving forward culturally. The ascendancy of the West…

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There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

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“Apparently, a week Japan was laughable; but a strong Japan was immediately transformed into the prime example of a "Yellow Peril". Might Japan forever be stuck in a kind of no man's land between East and West, not allowed to assimilate into the international order of the Western nations as an equal, forever grouped with the countries of the East…

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