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"Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads."
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"A flower blooming in a storm is stronger than a tree blossoming under a rainbow."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"A flower blooming in a storm is stronger than a tree blossoming under a rainbow."
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"Do not focus on the problem. Pray for strength to persevere."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Do not focus on the problem. Pray for strength to persevere."
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"What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude."
Harold Bloom
"What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude."
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"Let me not fear the tragedies of life but fear the triumphs."
Debasish Mridha
"Let me not fear the tragedies of life but fear the triumphs."
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"Arise in the power of might."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Arise in the power of might."
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"It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces."
Warren Christopher
"It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces."
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"You cannot stop the ocean's current, but you can swim."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"You cannot stop the ocean's current, but you can swim."
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"Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them."
James M. Barrie
"Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them."
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"Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side."
James Anthony Froude
"Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side."
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"Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from an indomitable will."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from an indomitable will."
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"Strength does not come from winning. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Strength does not come from winning. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."
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"You have the grace to overcome any obstacle. Be strong in heart and in spirit!"
Lailah Gifty Akita
"You have the grace to overcome any obstacle. Be strong in heart and in spirit!"
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"There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better."
Mark Shields
"There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better."
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"I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world."
Ruth Benedict
"I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world."
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"I haven't strength of mind not to need a career."
Ruth Benedict
"I haven't strength of mind not to need a career."
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"An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
W. E. B. Du Bois
"An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
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"Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him."
Anna Julia Cooper
"Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him."
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"Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away."
Robert Henri
"Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away."
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"I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it."
Joshua Lederberg
"I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it."
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"When you overcome the difficulties of life, you develop an inner strength."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"When you overcome the difficulties of life, you develop an inner strength."
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"Thunder roars but does not strike. Lightning strikes but does not roar. Choose to be lightning."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"Thunder roars but does not strike. Lightning strikes but does not roar. Choose to be lightning."
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"Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs."
Henry Villard
"Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs."
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"The stories I read gives strength to my spirit."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"The stories I read gives strength to my spirit."
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"Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength."
George Henry Lewes
"Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength."
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"The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness."
Blake Lively
"The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness."
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"If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard."
Ernest Shackleton
"If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard."
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"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."
Winston Churchill
"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."
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"Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?"
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"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."
Aristotle
"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."
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"When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid."
Audre Lorde
"When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid."
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"A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head."
Elizabeth I
"A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head."
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"You are strong because of what you overcame, brave because of what you defeated, fierce because of what you mastered, and powerful because of what you conquered."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"You are strong because of what you overcame, brave because of what you defeated, fierce because of what you mastered, and powerful because of what you conquered."
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"Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action."
Dorothy Day
"Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action."
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"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world."
Lao Tzu
"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world."
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"Took us a great amount of strength to get them into the world, and for them to be in the world. I think that their little spirits, you know, just said, well, we're going to be there. So it makes it very special because of it."
Cheryl Tiegs
"Took us a great amount of strength to get them into the world, and for them to be in the world. I think that their little spirits, you know, just said, well, we're going to be there. So it makes it very special because of it."
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"I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction."
Nick Lampson
"I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction."
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"Encouragement is a blazing hope."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Encouragement is a blazing hope."
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"The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force."
William Bligh
"The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force."
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"Courage consists of the power of self-recovery."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Courage consists of the power of self-recovery."
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"A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff."
Stephen King
"A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff."
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"The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?"
Georges Duhamel
"The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?"
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"Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion."
William C. Bryant
"Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion."
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"Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength."
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"Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny."
C. S. Lewis
"Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny."
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"True strength is delicate."
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
"True strength is delicate."
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"The survived souls give strength to the suffering souls."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"The survived souls give strength to the suffering souls."
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"The soul's hands carry the heart's burdens."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"The soul's hands carry the heart's burdens."
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"With a mighty mind, you can conquer every mountain."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"With a mighty mind, you can conquer every mountain."
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"The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom."
George W. Bush
"The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom."
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