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• The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.66

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• The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.

  Claude Debussy

  Dream, Soul, Bats

  Claude Debussy's letter to Ernest Chausson, 1894.

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• No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Believe, Soul

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• The greatest feeling you can get in a gym, or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is... The Pump.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Feelings, Pumps, Great Bodybuilding

  "Pumping Iron". Documentary, www.imdb.com. January 18, 1977.

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• The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Blood, Stones, Red

  Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

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• Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Men, Wings, Use

  Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.47, Mondial

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• Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Morning, Business, Reality

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Children, Military

  Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182

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• If you want something done, ask a busy person.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Strong Women, Want Something, Independent Person

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• Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Men, Grace, Desire

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• Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

  Robert South

  Heart, Guilt, Doe

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• Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures's will.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Love, Fire, Hot

  Alexander Maclaren (1910). “St. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians: (to II Corinthians, Chapter V)”

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• Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.246, OUP Oxford

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• Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Quitting, Institutions, Maidens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

  Harry Houdini

  Magic, Hot, Red

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.38, 谷月社

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• Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Men, Giving

  Entry for December 17, 1856. "Journal Intime". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, 1882.

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• I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.

  Cameron Diaz

  Poison, Maidens, Courses

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• From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

  Winston Churchill

  War, History, Eastern Europe

  Address at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo., 5 Mar. 1946.

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• But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

  Liam Neeson

  Hands, Fists, Grew Up

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• If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Running, Country, Strong Women

  1979 Interviewed by the Observer four days after becoming Britain's first woman Prime Minister, 8 May.

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• No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Television interview, 6 Jan. 1986, in The Times 12 Jan. 1986

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• If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Golf, Storm

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• In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron.

  Lee Trevino

  Thunderstorm, Middle, Cases

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• There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

  H. G. Wells

  Engineering, Bridges, Imperfection

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.79, H. G. Wells

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