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Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners.
– James Kent
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There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.
– John Knowles
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Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
– Maggie Kuhn
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It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.
– Bob Keeshan
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Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
– Charles Lamb
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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.
– Ann Landers
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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.
– Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
– General Robert E. Lee
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The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
– Max Lerner
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Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.
– Joseph Lieberman
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Don't wish me happiness-I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor-I will need them all.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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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
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
– Lawrence G. Lovasik
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But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.
– Friedrich List
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
– Og Mandino
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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
– Orison Swett Marden
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Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
– Mignon McLaughlin
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
– Herman Melville
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
– John Stuart Mill
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The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
– Arthur Miller
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True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
– Henry Miller
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
– John Muir
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Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.
– Lisa Murkowski
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I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.
– Louis MacNeice
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I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
– Miriam Makeba
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I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.
– Melissa Manchester
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I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.
– Dudley Moore
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Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
– Mike Murdock
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We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. America's lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.
– Ben Nelson
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True strength is delicate.
– Louise Nevelson
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The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.
– Sadaharu Oh
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This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work-they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.
– Frederick Law Olmsted
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
– Ovid
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Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
– Ovid
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Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.
– Bill Owens
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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
– Blaise Pascal
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Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.
– Pope Paul VI
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
– Cesare Pavese
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
– Cesare Pavese
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Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
– Gregory Peck
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I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.
– Evita Peron
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They just didn't have the sense of the strength of their vote. Just thought it wasn't necessary.
– Charles Phillips
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Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
– Pythagoras
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A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
– Marge Piercy
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To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
– Lawrence Clark Powell
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If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
– Francis Quarles
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My family is my strength and my weakness.
– Aishwarya Rai
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I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
– Branch Rickey
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I believe you'll develop speed via strength work which includes hill running, either repeats, or running hilly courses as the Kenyans do on a steady basis.
– Bill Rodgers
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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.
– Diana Ross
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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
– John Ruskin
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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
– Frances Rodman
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The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
– Richard Rosen
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
– Tecumseh
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My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
– Mother Teresa
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
– Leon Trotsky
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I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.
– Shania Twain
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As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
– Vincent van Gogh
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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
– Vincent van Gogh
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You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
– Marquis de Vauvenargues
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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
– Thorstein Veblen
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Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.
– Guy Verhofstadt
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Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.
– Guy Verhofstadt
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
– Leonardo da Vinci
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Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
– Jack Welch
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
– Oscar Wilde
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I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'
– Ricky Williams
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Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
– Oprah Winfrey
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Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
– Madame Swetchine
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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
– Phillips Brooks
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
– Calvin Coolidge
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The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
– Evenius
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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
– Anna Freud
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The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
– Claiborne Pell
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Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
– William Shenstone
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You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
– Mahalia Jackson
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You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.
– William Cavendish
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You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.
– Ted Olson
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You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.
– Steve Case
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You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.
– Eleanor Clift
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You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.
– Mark Pincus
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You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.
– Star Jones
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You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard.
– Midge Ure
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Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness and remember your strength.
– Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
– Corrie Ten Boom
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Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
– George Sand
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Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.
– William Moulton Marston
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Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.
– Michelle Bachelet
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Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.
– Alphonsus Liguori
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With a houseful of kids you give each other strength.
– Michael Landon
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