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• My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Opportunity, Needs, Youth

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• The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.

  Jules Renard

  Strong, Sweat, Ink

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.17, Tin House Books

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• Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Tasks, Assuming

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• No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a sign of strength if it is a question of looking for a stimulus or recognizing mistakes he must avoid.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Mistake, Doubt

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• Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Color, Etc, Facts

  Robert Rauschenberg, Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris (1968). “Robert Rauschenberg”

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• We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

  Cesar Chavez

  Struggle, Commitment, Economic Inequality

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.17, Texas A&M University Press

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  Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

  Betty Friedan

  Birthday, Inspiring, Uplifting

  "How to live longer, better, wiser". Betty Friedan, Parade Magazine (pp. 4-6), March 20, 1994.

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• During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.

  Asger Jorn

  Artist, Creative, Overcoming

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• The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Law, Secret, Stronger

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• When a tree has been transplanted, though fierce winds may blow, it will not topple if it has a firm stake to hold it up. But even a tree that has grown up in place may fall over if its roots are weak.

  Nichiren

  Fall, Blow, Wind

  Nichiren (2003). “The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin”

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• You are responsible for radicalizing your strengths.

  Sara Genn

  Responsible

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• Thomson's small oil sketches of the last years palpitate and throb. They are as direct in attack as a punch in the nose.

  Harold Town

  Years, Oil, Noses

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• The aggregate energy of all the great masters of the past and those of the present communicates the greatest possibilities of art. It is from this position that the artist attains colossal strength.

  Jorg Immendorff

  Art, Past, Energy

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• He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Leadership, Being Strong, War

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.33

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• In Unity there is strength;
  We can move mountains when we're united and enjoy life -
  Without unity we are victims. Stay united.

  Bill Bailey

  Moving, Enjoy Life, Unity

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• Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Motivational, Positive, Being Strong

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.5, Best Books on

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• The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

  1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.29.

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• So let it be in God's own might We gird us for the coming fight, And, strong in Him whose cause is ours In conflict with unholy powers, We grasp the weapons he has given,-- The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Strong, Fighting, Light

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.57

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• The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.

  Mitt Romney

  America, Community, Vibrancy

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

  Cesar Chavez

  Inspirational, Success, New Year

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• The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Spiritual, Strong, Men

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• Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking.

  John F. Carlson

  Voice, Weakness, Care

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• The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Loneliness, Men, Alone Man

  Henrik Ibsen (2016). “An Enemy of the People”, p.125, Henrik Ibsen

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• Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Fall, May

  William Shakespeare (1993). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.103, Heinemann

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• Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.

  Walter Scott

  Lines, Given, Lofty

  Walter Scott, James Reed (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.70, Psychology Press

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