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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
– Phil Jackson
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Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart, and with the whole soul with all his strength and with all his will.
– Max Muller
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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
– Ivan Turgenev
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While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.
– Louise Slaughter
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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
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When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from.
– Elvis Stojko
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When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.
– Patricia Neal
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When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
– Peter Marshall
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When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
– Aeschylus
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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
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
– V. S. Naipaul
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When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.
– Everett Dirksen
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When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.
– LL Cool J
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
– Chinua Achebe
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Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball I'm definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out.
– Steven Yeun
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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
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What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
– Salma Hayek
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
– Barbra Streisand
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What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.
– Hassan Nasrallah
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Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. They're very concerned with spending, the deficit, the bailouts, you know all of those kinds of things. But I really think that the strength of the Tea Party is being a grassroots movement.
– John Boozman
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Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.
– Robert Redford
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Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.
– Ann Richards
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Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
– John Lothrop Motley
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We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.
– Caroline Corr
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We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.
– Peter Mandelson
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We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.
– John Dos Passos
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We should believe in the strength and vitality of the values which constitute the E.U. and which neighbouring states can believe in and aspire to join.
– Donald Tusk
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We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.
– Alain Robert
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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
– Indra Devi
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We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.
– Michael McCaul
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We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together.
– Jerry Stiller
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We get strength and encouragement from watching children.
– Hayao Miyazaki
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We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
– Cesar Chavez
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We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.
– Jennifer Granholm
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We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong.
– Carlos Ghosn
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We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.
– John M. McHugh
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Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
– Li Ka Shing
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Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.
– Mickey Kaus
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Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.
– William Cavendish
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Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
– Mattie Stepanek
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Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.
– Andrew Shue
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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
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Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.
– George Porter
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To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.
– Philip Kaufman
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To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
– Arthur Holly Compton
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To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
– Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.
– Beyonce Knowles
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They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.
– Curtis Joseph
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These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell.
– Jose Canseco
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There's something that's sexy about a guy who has the strength to kill somebody, but is also vulnerable enough to be in love. It's just those two sides - like, I don't know why, but women for some reason aren't attracted to normal guys, like, guys who are in between.
– Evan Peters
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There's so much with my character in 'Dredd' that I identify with. She's my favorite character I think I've ever played. She's the most dynamic and fascinating woman that I could even imagine playing, so I love her. What I love about her is that her sensitivity is her greatest strength.
– Olivia Thirlby
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There's a lot of strength in the U.S., but there's a lot of froth also. The froth will blow off. We're going to have to face up to some realities that we're not fully facing up to right now.
– Jeffrey Sachs
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There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.
– Tony Kushner
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There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.
– Arthur Scargill
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There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated certain people poorly at times. It was because of who I was. It was almost my strength. I came in all business. I tried to find ways to fit in with that demeanor, but it's not easy.
– Kirk Gibson
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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
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There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.
– Beverly Sills
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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
– Pat Riley
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There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
– Booker T. Washington
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There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
– Charles Dickens
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Then when I went to Iraq and saw the strength and character the men and women in our military service exhibit every day and their belief in what they're doing, I knew I wanted to get that on film and share it with everyone. They are my inspiration.
– Joe Nichols
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The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
– Georg Buchner
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The virtue of paganism was strength the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
– Augustus Hare
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The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.
– Paul Harris
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The type of cuisine I do, especially after being on 'Iron Chef' for several years, is a lot of global cuisine. My strength has always been Mediterranean cuisine across the board from Morocco, Spain, Italy, Greece, France, but I think now I'm doing a lot of very different cuisines all the time.
– Cat Cora
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The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.
– Mark E. Smith
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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
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The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.
– Ariel Sharon
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The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent's playing ability is comparable, does the game develop.
– Vladimir Kramnik
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The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
– Garrett Fort
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The strength of America is not in Washington.
– J. C. Watts
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The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.
– Guy Finley
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The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.
– Lydia Sigourney
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The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.
– Bernard Ebbers
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The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.
– Derek Fisher
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The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
– Lech Walesa
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The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.
– Robert Kiyosaki
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The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.
– Laurent Fabius
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The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
– Roger Federer
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The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
– Robert Browning
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The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament it is its ancient and natural strength the floating bulwark of the island.
– William Blackstone
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The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.
– Goldwin Smith
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The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.
– Robert Teeter
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The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go.
– Young Buck
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The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.
– Hu Jintao
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The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.
– Dagmara Dominczyk
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The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.
– Aisha Tyler
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The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain.
– Mary Lynn Rajskub
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The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.
– Kim Jong-un
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The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.
– John L. Lewis
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The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
– Felix Frankfurter
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The legacy of Steve Jobs and the strength of Steve Jobs is that he established a company that's clearly firing on all cylinders and clicking very well.
– Al-Waleed bin Talal
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The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
– Robert Shea
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The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
– Ninon de L'Enclos
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The guys I date always want to test my strength and wrestle around. By the end, they're drenched in sweat.
– Gina Carano
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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
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The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
– Jacques Maritain
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The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.
– Chen Shui-bian
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The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.
– Daniel Nathans
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