Strongest Quotes - Page 19

• The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.

  Hannah Arendt

  Strength, Independence, Peculiar

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Your business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting.

  Scott Adams

  Fashion, Business, Clothes

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• It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.

  William Winwood Reade

  Art, War, Simple

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.38

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• My hopes for Iran's future lies with women first and foremost. Iran's feminist movement is very strong. This movement has no leader or head quarters. Its place is the home of every Iranian who believes in equal rights. This is currently the strongest women's movement in the Middle East.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Strong, Lying, Believe

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• What is the strongest cure?--Victory.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Medicine, Victory, Cures

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• There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Thinking, Civilization

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1243, Delphi Classics

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• To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Yield, Tyrants, Reason

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• Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Style, Expansion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.310, Harvard University Press

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• Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Believe, Character, Past

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• Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

  Plato

  Wise, Honey, Herbs

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• I know that our country is strongest when we lead the world, when we lead strong alliances. And that's the way Eisenhower and Reagan and Kennedy and others did it.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Strong, Alliances

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We set forth on a journey to bring our vision to our country, to keep the American dream alive for all who are willing to work for it, to make our American community stronger, to keep America the world's strongest force for peace and freedom and prosperity.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Dream, Journey

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1409, Best Books on

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• I guess my strongest recurring theme is honoring love, even when it's lost.

  Lana Del Rey

  Lost, Theme, Recurring

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• Our country [America] is still the strongest force for peace and freedom on earth.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, America, Earth

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• One of the most startling discoveries of my career was when I realized that the strongest women in the world are not lesbians but heterosexual women, who know how to handle men.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Discovery, Careers

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.80, Vintage

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• Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) [all else being equal] strongest at the least distance?

  Isaac Newton

  Distance, Light, Rays

  "Opticks". Book by Isaac Newton, Query 1, 1704.

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• Spiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in spirit are strongest alone against those who can express themselves only in the mass and the mob, and who are significant only because they are numerous.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Spiritual, Strong, Freedom

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.39, VM eBooks

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• The Common lawes of the Realme should by no means be delayed for the law is the surest sanctuary, that a man should take, and the strongest fortresse to protect the weakest of all, lex et tutissima cassis.

  Edward Coke

  Mean, Men, Law

  "The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England". Book by Edward Coke, 1642.

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• Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless boyhood" with all that lies on the banks of the Stour; those scenes made me a painter, and I am grateful; that is, I had often thought of pictures of them before ever I touched a pencil, and your picture ['The White Horse'] is one of the strongest instance I can recollect of it.

  John Constable

  Horse, Lying, Grateful

  Letter to Rev. John Fisher, October 23, 1821.

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• Ernest Bevin had many of the strongest characteristics of the English race. His manliness, his common sense, his rough simplicity, sturdiness and kind heart, easy geniality and generosity, all are qualities which we who live in the southern part of this famous island regard with admiration.

  Ernest Bevin

  Heart, Islands, Race

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• Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.

  Anthony Trollope

  Husband, Hate, Wife

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works”, p.16, 谷月社

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• When God says to us, "Give me your load, trust me, what you cannot do, I will do for you," He puts our faith to one of the strongest tests. He never consents to carry our burdens unless we give them to Him.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Giving, Tests, Trust Me

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 598, 1895.

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• Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged its identity based on culture. I mean, the amount of artists living and working in Berlin is unparalleled. It's one of the strongest economies, not only in Europe, but globally, and it's because of its understanding of the importance of culture.

  Cate Blanchett

  Country, War, Mean

  "George Clooney, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Bob Balaban, John Goodman and Producer Grant Heslov Talk the Monuments Men". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 3, 2014.

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• I believe America is safest and strongest when we are leading the world and we are leading strong alliances.

  John F. Kerry

  Strong, Believe, America

  "Who could best prevent another 9/11?". The debate at the University of Miami, www.cnn.com. October 1, 2004.

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• America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Giving Up, America, Challenges

  Formal Announcement Speech, Cleveland, Ohio, www.4president.org. October 13, 2003.

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