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• We do learn something about ourselves when we are up against the wall, and we do most certainly come out stronger.

  Tina Sloan

  Encouragement, Wall

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• We invite people working for peace to span generations and national boundaries, and gather together to communicate. Let us firmly join hands and foster an even stronger network for nuclear abolition and peace.

  Iccho Itoh

  Hands, People, Together

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• To all the survivors out there, I want them to know that we are stronger and more resilient than we ever knew. We survived, that should be enough but it isn't. We must work hard to become whole again, to fill our soul with love and inspiration, to live the life that was intended for us before it was disrupted by war and horrors, and help rebuild a world that is better than the one we had just left.

  Loung Ung

  War, Live Life, Inspiration

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• To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen to us, requires faith and courage.

  Erich Fromm

  Thinking, Punishment, Challenges

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.115, A&C Black

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• Avoiding fear and pain can cause them to grow stronger. The trick with fear is to go with it, to let it do it's work. Once fear has put us in touch with our inner issue it can diminish. In fact, simply acknowledging fear seems to lessen it.

  John Earle

  Inspirational, Pain, Issues

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• Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

  Max Cleland

  Adversity, Men, People

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• The heart is a muscle, and you strengthen muscles by using them. The more I lead with my heart, the stronger it gets.

  Mark Millar

  Heart, Inspire, Muscles

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• That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size.

  Steve Mariucci

  Kids, School, College

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• We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and start things again. The animal spirit of capitalism is stronger there.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Country, Animal, America

  "Thank God for Rupert Murdoch" by Kelvin MacKenzie, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2011.

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• Almost everywhere else in Europe, the more military the state, the stronger the king - except in Britain. Here it was parliament, not the monarchy, who signed the cheques. The longer the war went on, the stronger parliament became, as the purse on which it sat grew bigger and bigger.

  Simon Schama

  Kings, Military, War

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• In adversity, there is opportunity. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivation, Adversity, Opportunity

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• You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.

  James Mattis

  Military, War, Broken

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• ... the cooperative forces are biologically the more important and vital. The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and egoistic is relatively close. Under many conditions the cooperative forces lose, In the long run, however, the group centered, more altruistic drives are slightly stronger. ... human altruistic drives are as firmly based on an animal ancestry as is man himself. Our tendencies toward goodness... are as innate as our tendencies toward intelligence; we could do well with more of both.

  Warder Clyde Allee

  Running, Animal, Men

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• Geneva has a long history of hosting international organizations, which is part of the reason why CERN is here. CERN has signed agreements with the ITU, WIPO and the WMO. At first sight, there may not seem to be much common ground between CERN and, say, the World Meteorological Organization, but scratch the surface, and you'll soon find a common thread. All of these organizations have a vocation to stimulate technological innovation, and together we're stronger.

  Rolf-Dieter Heuer

  Sight, Agreement, Common Threads

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• If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.

  Ai Weiwei

  Danger, Ifs

  "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry". Documentary, 2012.

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• That his prayer was nothing else but a sense of the presence of GOD, his soul being at that time insensible to everything but Divine love: and that when the appointed times of prayer were past, he found no difference, because he still continued with GOD, praising and blessing Him with all his might, so that he passed his life in continual joy; yet hoped that GOD would give him somewhat to suffer, when he should grow stronger.

  Brother Lawrence

  Prayer, Past, Blessing

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Practice of the Presence of God and Spiritual Maxims”, p.14, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt.

  Os Guinness

  Believe, Understanding, Doubt

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• Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.

  Miuccia Prada

  Strong Women, Trying, Sensitive

  Interview with Sonnet Stanfill, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2012.

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• But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Bars, Steel, Consciousness

  Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”

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• Cameroon is stronger because it's a country of conquerors, of winners. Cameroon's players aren't necessarily very technical, but that when they play, they play to win.

  Roger Milla

  Country, Winning, Player

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• A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Separation, Formal, Mark

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• Stronger women build stronger nations.

  Zainab Salbi

  Nations

  "World's women work to find a better way" By Elizabeth Yuan, cnn.com. October 12, 2006.

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• The image is a pure creation of the mind. It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two more or less distant realities. The more the relationship between the two juxtaposed realities is distant and true, the stronger the image will be - the greater its emotional power and poetic reality..

  Pierre Reverdy

  Reality, Emotional, Two

  "Oeuvres complètes" edited by Marguerite Bonnet, Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1988.

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• We won't apologise for our way of life, nor will we weaver in its defence, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken, you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.

  Barack Obama

  Broken, Way, Spirit

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• His Name will never fall. His Name will never be defeated. His Name will never be reduced to rubble. A tower that’s stronger than any man-made fortress and large enough to see from a distance, even if we’ve lost our way.

  Liz Curtis Higgs

  Distance, Fall, Men

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