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• I believe, the NAACP began to try to organize parents of Negro children to file petitions with the boards of education regarding the integration of the school system. You had some very severe economic reprisals against people in Mississippi and in South Carolina. So, in order to try to help to meet some of the physical needs and the economic needs of people in Clarendon County [SC] who had been displaced from the land, and otherwise, and in certain sections of Mississippi, we organized in New York City something called "In Friendship".

  Ella Baker

  New York, Children, Believe

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• When I wrote "Lead Me," I had no idea that God was preparing me to lead my family through a season of great adversity. It was only a month after Pieces of a Real Heart was released that my wife, Sarah, and I found out that our son had a severe, life-threatening heart defect.

  Matt Hammitt

  Real, Heart, Adversity

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• The reports from the scientific world are that, there is very sadly an escalating impact of HIV and Aids in South Africa. And it’s from what I have read assuming distinct characteristics which were atypical of how this phenomenon had developed in the States and therefore this meant that we look at what it is that results in all of this, specific to our country.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, Impact, Hiv

  Interview with Lionel Barber and Alec Russell, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.

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• Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most characteristic portrait of a period and the most severe testimony of a nation's intellectual status.

  Peter Behrens

  Mean, Expression, Giving

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• Is it just me, or does every woman in New York have a severe emotional problem?

  Eddie Murphy

  New York, Emotional, Doe

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• Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself.

  Teresa of Avila

  Kind, Gentle

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• The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Father, Lying

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “Discussions”

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• Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

  Mark Twain

  Answers, Golden, Made

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”

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• Richard Hadlee has the appearance of a rickety church steeple and a severe manner which suggests that women are not likely to be ordained yet.

  Peter Roebuck

  Church, Appearance, Steeples

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• It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Needs, Skylines, Height

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• Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Space, Soul, Lust

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• But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies.

  Adam Smith

  Children, Science, Climate

  Adam Smith (2010). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.83, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A severe disease that transmits easily will leave very little international surge capacity as most countries will need their own staff and resources to combat the outbreak in their territories.

  Margaret Chan

  Country, Disease, Littles

  "Are We Prepared? An Exclusive Interview with WHO Director-General Margaret Chan". “Next Outbreak” with Joanne Silberner, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2015.

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• There are people who are afraid to go to confession, forgetting that they will not encounter a severe judge there, but the immensely merciful Father.

  Pope Francis

  Father, Judging, People

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• May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn in others

  Jerry Bridges

  May, Sin, Subtle

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “Respectable Sins”, p.121, NavPress

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• Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or the community--are more likely to be overburdened by the demands of their babies and to be unable to respond to them adequately. Parents who experience severe poverty or economic insecurity, who cannot satisfy their own basic needs, are likely to have difficulty in responding to their children's needs.

  Sheila Kamerman

  Baby, Children, Community

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• It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong, or it might descend like a sudden catastrophe, this blankness between ourselves and the rest of the world. The blankness might not even be obvious to others. But on our side of that severed connection, it was hell, a life lived behind glass. The only difference between mild depression and severe schizophrenia was the amount of sound and air that seeped in.

  Tracy Thompson

  Differences, Glasses, Air

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• I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and twitter to contrive fiction.

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden

  Thinking, People, Google

  "Tor Editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden On the Future of SF Books". Interview with Annalee Newitz, io9.com. August 26, 2009.

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• In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on formalism. There was a bulletin board in the Moscow Conservatory. They posted the decree, which said Shostakovichs compositions and Prokofievs were no longer to be played.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Boards, Moscow, Firsts

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• There are studies that tell us that stress and lack of self-image, lack of self-esteem, severe dieting, binge dieting and binge eating can also be very damaging to a body and bring on various kinds of abnormalities.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Self Esteem, Stress, Dieting

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectations.

  Bryan Caplan

  Selfish, Expectations, Political

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• The weird thing about metal fans is we're all so maladjusted in a lot of ways. We're individualistic and opinionated and severe in our personalities - sometimes we really turn each other off. A little bit of a metal fan goes a long way.

  Corey Taylor

  Metal Fans, Long, Personality

  "Metal bands: Ignored but still angry". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2012.

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• When I stopped drinking... there were so many things I had to face that I didnt even realize were part of my makeup before. When you do that and have any changes that severe, you lose a lot of things, both good and bad.

  Jason Isbell

  Drinking, Makeup, Faces

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• Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.

  Aristotle

  Crush, Pain, Adversity

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

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• But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour of an Imperial proselyte, whom it was so important to allure, by every gentle condescension, into the pale of the church; and Constantine was permitted, at least by a tacit dispensation, to enjoy most of the privileges, before he had contracted any of the obligations, of a Christian.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Discipline, History

  Edward Gibbon, François Guizot (1859). “Guizot's Gibbon: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.258

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