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• Why am I running for president? Well, my wife, Cindy, says it is because I sustainedseveral severe blows to the head in prison camp.

  John McCain

  Running, Blow, Wife

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• Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well.

  Vernon Howard

  Looks, Bears, Sickness

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• A SWAT team surrounded my house and came in every door. But it happened because on the day that we split up, Madonna developed a concern that if she were to return to the house, she would get a very severe haircut.

  Sean Penn

  Team, Doors, House

  Source: gawker.com

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• It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Persistence, Thug

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• The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance.

  Elmer Kelton

  Memories, Endurance, Events

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• The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.

  Cyril Connolly

  Stupid, Intelligent, Thinking

  Cyril Connolly (1960). “Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas”

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• ... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.

  Hannah More

  Trials, Sober, Rich

  Hannah More (1854). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.323

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• Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.

  Hannah More

  Exercise, Affliction, Moral

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.770

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• While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.

  Alan Greenspan

  Diversity, Imbalance, Size

  "The mortgage market and consumer debt". Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan At America’s Community Bankers Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., www.federalreserve.gov. October 19, 2004.

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• There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

  John Dewey

  Intelligent, Discipline, Development

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.114, Kappa Delta Pi

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• you know a person is having a severe personality crisis if you see a high school class ring on a finger beyond the first semester in college. Male or female. It's a big sign saying nothing has mattered to my life since senior year.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Senior, School, College

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

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• Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead to healing, but not if the circle of concern is so tight that it cannot be broken into, or out of.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Healing, Circles, Broken

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.95, Open Road Media

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• Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils.
  [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]

  Tacitus

  Power, Council, Cautious

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• An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Heart, Riches, Devotion

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.21

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• Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fashion, Art, Serious

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• The Treasury plan is a disgrace: a bailout of reckless bankers, lenders and investors that provides little direct debt relief to borrowers and financially stressed households and that will come at a very high cost to the US taxpayer. And the plan does nothing to resolve the severe stress in money markets and interbank markets that are now close to a systemic meltdown.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Stress, Littles, Bankers

  "Not so much bail-out as rip-off". www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2008.

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• Deficit financing proper is rather the process whereby a Government spends more money that it withdraws from the economy by taxation, borrowing, running down reserves, etc.; thereby causing in most circumstances, and very acutely in ours, monetary inflation and severe pressure on the balance of payments.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Running, Government, Balance

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 249), March 29, 1967.

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• To combat depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection -- a procedure which can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Evil, Deception

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• What I remember about being painted was a very severe atmosphere. I remember her intensity and sharp glance.

  Andrew Neel

  Atmosphere, Portraiture, Remember

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• The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

  Madame de Stael

  Women, People, Want

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• The death of my mother permanently affects my happiness, more even than I should have anticipated, though I always knew that I must feel the separation at first as a severe wrench. But I did not apprehend, during her life, to what a degree she prevented me from feeling heart-solitude.

  Sara Coleridge

  Mother, Heart, Should Have

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.345

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• The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it does invite self-indulgence. In my own case, the worst I ever survived was severe personal and political confusion, the temptation to various sorts of craziness and a couple of bad acid trips. It felt pretty horrendous at the time, and some of it was even dangerous, but Auschwitz it wasn't.

  Ellen Willis

  Spiritual, Couple, Emotional

  Ellen Willis (2012). “Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-And-Roll”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press

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• The distinctions of personal merit and influence, so conspicuous in a republic, so feeble and obscure under a monarchy, were abolished by the despotism of the emperors; who substituted in their room a severe subordination of rank and office, from the titled slaves who were seated on the steps of the throne, to the meanest instruments of arbitrary power.

  Edward Gibbon

  History, Office, Thrones

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.325, Modern Library

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• The summer lasted a long long time, like verse after verse of a ballad, but when it ended, it ended like a man falling dead in the street of heart trouble. One night, all in one night, severe winter came, a white horse of snow rolling over Bountiful, snorting and rolling in its meadows, its fields.

  Ardyth Kennelly

  Summer, Horse, Fall

  Ardyth Kennelly (1949). “The Peaceable Kingdom”

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• The beautiful is always severe.

  Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Segur, Viscount of Segur

  Beauty, Beautiful

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