I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin concept in a more modern way. I don't think that I was that literal.

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The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

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The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need tomorrow. ― Robert Tew

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Chess is life in miniature. Trust is struggle. Chess is battles. — Garry Kasparov, chess grandmaster

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The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. — Robert Tew

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You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful. ― Amy Bloom

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The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. ― Helen Keller

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The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.

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Bare your struggles very close to your heart and have them be a part of you that you’re proud of instead of something that you’re ashamed of.

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I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all...

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