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• Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

  Criss Jami

  People, Creative, Mediocrity

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.122, Criss Jami

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• Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Character, Numbers, Rejection

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Dec 16, 2014

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• I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation.

  Dominique Wilkins

  Tools, Dunking, Used

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• Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans

  Ben Shapiro

  Silence, Bully, Culture

  FaceBook post by Ben Shapiro from Jan 14, 2013

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• We live in a society where we basically live and strive on what people think about us. We’re more visual people so what we see is basically what we believe which is not necessarily true.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, Believe

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• Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Giving, Soul

  "Forgiving Others and Trusting God . . . a Handbook for Survivors of Child". Book by J. E. Norris-Bernal, p. 16, 2011.

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• Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.

  Don Drysdale

  Attitude, Guy, Balls

  "You Let Some GIRL Beat You?: The Story of Ann Meyers Drysdale". Book by Ann Meyers Drysdale, p. 24, 2012.

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• Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it.

  Mark Spitz

  Art, Believe, Winning

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• Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.

  Stockwell Day

  Judging, Political, Intervention

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• Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Tools, Instructors, Drills

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• I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials.

  Zhu Rongji

  Intimidating, Mass, Intimidated

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• Self-censorship as a result of intimidation or social pressures, sometimes referred to as "political correctness", constitutes a serious obstacle to the proper functioning of democracy. It is important to hear the views of all persons,including the "silent majority", and to give heed to the weaker voices.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Self, Views, Voice

  Interim report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, August 9, 2012.

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• Iran is determined to use peaceful nuclear technology and no intimidation or threat can make us give it up.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Technology, Iran, Giving

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• We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

  Barbra Streisand

  Exercise, Hype, Ties

  Barbra Streisand's Letter to Democrats, www.foxnews.com. April 2, 2001.

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• It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy of fear and intimidation to foreigners, despite their weapons, despite their immigration laws and military reserves, they will never be able to isolate the Zapatista communities from the people in the United States.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Military, Artist, Government

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• You should not be subjected to the pressures, the intimidation, whether by Government or by the private sector, which would force you into self-censorship.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Government, Self, Pressure

  "Un Expert on Democracy Highlights Importance of Free Expression, Information". news.un.org. October 28, 2013.

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• Freedom is an eternal principle. Heaven disapproves of force, coercion and intimidation. Only a free people can be truly a happy people.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  People, Heaven, Principles

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• I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Political, Down And

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• The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Judging, Democracy, Sanctions

  "My Exclusive Interview with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2009.

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• I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts turn to water, whilst their heads become giddy and incapable of thinking as the sweat of fear paralyzes them.

  Shaka

  Fear, Heart, Men

  "Shaka Zulu : The Rise of the Zulu Empire". Book by E. A. Ritter, p. 319, 1955.

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• Democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens.

  DeForest Soaries

  Mean, Democracy, Vote

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• The internet has made possible a frightening practice of threats and intimidation - threats of unspeakable violence and death.

  Joan Wallach Scott

  Violence, Internet, Threat

  Source: www.salon.com

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• When God is seeking a person, he will not allow my fear, my feeling of intimidation or my lack of knowledge or experience to prevent that person from finding him.

  Rebecca Pippert

  Feelings, Lack Of Knowledge, Persons

  David Peterson, Rebecca Manley-Pippert (2013). “Out of the Saltshaker and into the World: Evangelism As A Way Of Life”, p.22, SPCK

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• If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.

  Lucretius

  Men, Saws, Hocus Pocus

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• To rest in God's power when your own weaknesses seem to be screaming at you? That's grace! To be confident in who God is for you when you feel overwhelmed by odds against you? That's peace! To stand alone against massive intimidation? That's trust! To know beyond any shadow of a doubt that God is bigger, and therefore you cannot lose? That's the faith that moves mountains!

  Graham Cooke

  Moving, Odds, Grace

  FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Jan 10, 2013

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