Severe Quotes - Page 12

• Now the struggle for life is so sharp, competition is so severe, that few men can succeed who carry a useless burden. The businessmen of our country are compelled to lead temperate lives, otherwise their credit is gone.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Country, Struggle, Men

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• Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences.... Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another.

  Taryn Simon

  Beautiful, Photography, Quality

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• Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.

  Carl Levin

  Country, Cutting, Years

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• The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Home, Thinking, Neighbor

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• I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Evil, May

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• We have to separate here the church in its broad sense. We have Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox churches. The Catholic church is a corporation like a chief executive. A fairly homogenous operation. Today its attitude toward anti-Semitism is much more severe than it's ever been. The Catholic Church today is much less the problem than the other groups.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Attitude, Church Today, Catholic

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment, as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it shall not be disproportioned to its guilt, at such a time and in such a cause.

  George Washington

  Punishment, Soldier, Guilt

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “(v. 9) Containing correspondence from the time of resigning his commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, to that of his inauguration as president”, p.90

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• I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.

  Temple Grandin

  Believe, Autism, Suffering

  Temple Grandin (2008). “Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism”, p.217, Vintage

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• I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Missing, World, Cheese

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. June 15, 2002.

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• The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Play, Roles

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.84, Vintage

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• If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

  Irwin Redlener

  Pandemics, Care, Pay

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• I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

  George Fetherling

  Speech, Young, Therapy

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• We recognize that North Korea is in severe financial straits, and they have decided to use their resources to build their military, rather than to feed their people and to take care of the various humanitarian responsibilities that they have.

  Benjamin Carson

  Military, Responsibility, Korea

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• South Korea is one of the worst countries when it comes to opportunity for women in social activities and employment. To my disgust, in certain communities in Korea, you cannot even imagine how severe sex discrimination is.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Country, Sex, Opportunity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't get severe winters.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Winter, Climate, British

  "Sculptor Turns Rain, Ice And Trees Into 'Ephemeral Works'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 8, 2015.

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• My family was too serious. They didn't take care of me - it was a very serious and severe life. Not severe in a bad way; just boring - like totally neutral. I felt no emotion.

  Miuccia Prada

  Serious, Care, Way

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

  Malachy McCourt

  Political, Brain, Damage

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But if there had been no Stalin and no purge, Mandelstam still would have been a poet of severe emotional and existential extremity.

  Christian Wiman

  Emotional, Lenses, Work And Life

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like the ones that happened in 1929 and 2008.

  Bob Frank

  Demand, Financial, Great Depression

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are many kinds of adult adversities that can provoke severe psychological distress, including debt and unemployment, dysfunctional marital relationships and occupational stress. The reality is that the social causes of mental ill-health are all around us.

  Richard Bentall

  Stress, Adversity, Reality

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think sometimes the hardest obstacle is yourself. I can certainly be my own worst critic and oftentimes forget to enjoy the here and now. Physically, the hardest obstacle I have overcome was severe back issues. [This] resulted in finally getting surgery to replace four discs, which changed my life back to active - which is how I am happiest.

  Tricia Helfer

  Thinking, Issues, Overcoming

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• Air pollution is my biggest concern right now. Maybe because I live in Beijing, and in this city we have such severe challenges due to bad air quality. It has affected our daily lives and health. I do not go outdoors because of it. I desperately hope that we can improve the current situation.

  Li Bingbing

  Air, Cities, Challenges

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• Most of the reasons for late-term abortions have to do with severe fetal deformities, but when I found out that dwarfism was also a reason for late-term abortions that was tough. I did a book on dwarfs and know a lot of them, and that was a shock. That's a decision I could not feel comfortable with.

  John H Richardson

  Book, Abortion, Decision

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• The problem is so severe that trying to say, "First we'll fix the government and then we'll tackle climate change," or, "First we have to figure out alternative systems to capitalism and then we'll tackle climate change," I don't see how those things are possible in the very short term.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Government, Trying, Firsts

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm the strongest advocate you can imagine for doing things honestly and paying your taxes. Take advantage of every tax break you're legally entitled to. But I follow the letter of the law, because the consequences are severe if you're caught. I was a perpetrator at one time and suffered severe consequences. It is difficult in some places, but if you live in places like California, move somewhere else to save some money.

  Michael Franzese

  Moving, Law, Somewhere Else

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