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• That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Horse, Spring

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.139, Xist Publishing

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• Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

  Olive Schreiner

  Wall, Kicks

  Olive Schreiner (2009). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.276, The Floating Press

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• Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the plow through its furrows, or classed with idiots, lunatics and criminals in the laws and constitutions of the State, the principle is the same; for the humiliations of the spirit are as real as the visible badges of servitude.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Real, Law, Shoes

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr

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• I've whipped the Harvard graduate's ass. Nothing against Harvard - it's a hell of a school - but there I was, twenty five yards behind, wrapped in leg irons, and I beat him.

  Don King

  School, Boxing, Twenties

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• Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Men, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.240

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• When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute.

  Carson Daly

  Girl, Baseball, Football

  "Carson Daly: 'I'm Living Proof That the Good Guys Win'". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. April 19, 2012.

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• The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Motivational, Leadership, Soul

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• I'm a real pussy cat - with an iron tail.

  Rona Barrett

  Real, Cat, Pet

  "Hollywood’s Rona Barrett: Now A Senior Advocate Dynamo" by Dayna Steele, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2016.

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• Think of a field of daisies: they bloom, they wither, and in the spring they grow again. Who wants to see the same stupid daisy year after year, especially with a bunch of crappy iron-lung-type equipment bolted to it?

  Rudy Rucker

  Spring, Stupid, Thinking

  Interview with Giulio Prisco, turingchurch.com. August 2002.

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• We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

  John Dryden

  Hot, May, Leisure

  'Aeneis' (1697) dedication

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• Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.118, Penguin

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• So deeply is the gardener's instinct implanted in my soul, I really love the tools with which I work; the iron fork, the spade, the hoe, the rake, the trowel, and the watering pot are pleasant objects in my eyes.

  Celia Thaxter

  Love, Eye, Hoe

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.24, Applewood Books

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• No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.

  Isaac Babel

  Heart, Right Time, Humans

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• There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  School, Adversity, Discipline

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Should Have, Mind, Steel

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• No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Men, Light

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.177, Lulu.com

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• It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Crush, Men, People

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with an ingot of red -hot iron: I have to pick up the incandescent metal and burn my own hand while burning the other. Hate itself is the seed of death in my own heart, while it seeks the death of the other.

  Thomas Merton

  Hate, Heart, Love Is

  "The Nonviolent Alternative".

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• All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them will, sooner or later, put forth a moral power which shall prostrate cant, and burst asunder the bonds (silken to some but cold iron to others) of feudal prejudice and usages. In the meantime is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? If so, what is the ground of this limitation?

  Harriet Martineau

  Sex, Race, Justice

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.179

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• The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering after trinkets, children and wives, that, say the wise, is the strong fetter. It drags one down, and loose as it feels, it is hard to break. Breaking this fetter, people renounce the world, free from longing and abandoning sensuality.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Strong, Buddhist

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• Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
  Minds innocent and quiet take that for a hermitage:
  If I have freedom in my love, and in my Soul I am free,
  Angels alone, that soar above, enjoy such liberty.

  Richard Lovelace

  Wall, Angel, Soul

  'To Althea, From Prison'

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• In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

  Theodore E. Steinway

  Piano, May, Pounds

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• Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

  Richard Florida

  Work, Creativity, People

  Richard Florida (2014). “The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded”, p.8, Basic Books

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• No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Cheer, Political, Hot

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• With a rumble and a roar, an iron curtain is descending on Russian history.

  Vasily Rozanov

  Historical, Russian History, Rumble

  "'Let Us Preach What We Practise': The Fulton Speech and Today's War" by Christopher C. Harmon, The Finest Hourmagazine, 135, p. 25, www.winstonchurchill.org. Summer 2007.

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