Strongest Quotes - Page 9

• Today, we are closer to fulfilling America's promise of economic and social justice because we stand on the shoulders of giants like Dr. King, yet our future progress will depend on how we prepare our next generation of leaders. We must fortify their ladders of opportunity by correcting social injustice, breaking the cycle of poverty in struggling communities, and reinvesting in our schools. Education can unlock a child's potential and remains our strongest weapon against injustice and inequality.

  Barack Obama

  Kings, Children, Struggle

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• When all our efforts have come to nothing, we naturally tend to doubt not just ourselves, but also whether God is just. At those moments, our only hope is to seek every evidence that God is just, by communing with the people we know who are strongest in faith.

  Bill Moyers

  Faith, People, Effort

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• There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right.

  Elinor Ostrom

  Believe, People, Incentives

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• Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Thinking, Yesterday

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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• Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent that which we feel strongest about in guiding our behavior.

  Stephen Covey

  Law, Our Actions, Principles

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Memories, Grandmother, People

  Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Big Stone Gap: A Novel”, p.4, Ballantine Books

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• The Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me. When I see it lumbering down the mountain road like a tank . . . I flag it down like an old friend. I've waited on this corner every Friday since I can remember. The Bookmobile is just a government truck, but to me it's a glittering royal coach delivering stories and knowledge and life itself. I even love the smell of books. People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count on the Bookmobile.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Beautiful, Wise, Friday

  "Big Stone Gap". Book by Adriana Trigiani, January 1, 2003.

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• When an individual wishes to stand in opposition to authority, he does best to find support for his position from others in his group. The mutual support provided by men for each other is the strongest bulwark we have against the excesses of authority.

  Stanley Milgram

  Men, Mutual Support, Wish

  "Obedience to Authority : An Experimental View". Book by Stanley Milgram, p. 121, 1974.

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• Has the international criminal court avoided opening an investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza due to political pressure. The answer is an unequivocal “no”. As prosecutor of the ICC, I reject any suggestion of this in the strongest terms.

  Fatou Bensouda

  War, Political, Criminals

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• If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.

  Ben Casnocha

  Ideas, Argument, Metaphor

  Twitter post from Jul 10, 2012

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• I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.

  John Milius

  Guy, Pieces, Paper

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• Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Adversity, Wind

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• A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the enjoyment of liberty. Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Cities, History

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith”, p.359

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• Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years.

  Tim Holden

  Country, Democracies Have, Years

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• The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

  Norm Dicks

  Environmental, Tools, Decline

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• One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment - only you must first realize this.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Wish, Realization, May

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• They say that vegetable food is not sufficiently nutritious. But chemistry proves the contrary. So does physiology. So does experience....And again: the largest and strongest animals in the world are those which eat no flesh-food of any kind - the elephant and the rhinoceros.

  R. Trall

  Animal, Vegetables, Elephants

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• Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water.

  Tim Winton

  Memories, Water, Surviving

  Tim Winton (2009). “Breath”, p.110, Pan Macmillan

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• Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages.

  Thomas Sprat

  Spring, Fall, Passion

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• You never know yourself until the chips are down. True strength is not measured when your at your strongest, but when you’re at your weakest.

  Rashad Evans

  Know Yourself, Chips, True Strength

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• It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It can and often does motivate a lifetime, it kills more than cats, and the prospect of satisfying it can be the most exciting of emotions.

  Jack Finney

  Sex, Cat, Race

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• Often the strongest evidence of my growth in grace is my growth in the knowledge of my need for grace.

  J. D. Greear

  Grace, Growth, Needs

  J. D. Greear (2013). “Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved”, p.103, B&H Publishing Group

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• The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Mind, Prejudice, Superstitions

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.367, Library of Alexandria

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• My mother always said that the strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell. That which doesn't kill us doesn't have to make us bitter, unless we let it. Those fires show us what we can survive and clear the field for new growth. For a better harvest.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Fire, Growth

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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• If you think communism is too hard a word - necessitates for government to be your god. And for government to be your God, they need to destroy the concept of God. That's why communism and evolution go hand in hand. Evolution is one of the strongest tools of Marxism. Because if they can convince you that you came from a monkey, it's much easier to convince you that God does not exist.

  Rafael Cruz

  Thinking, Government, Hands

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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