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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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• Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong, of exposing other people's weaknesses and infirmities, for the sake either of diverting the company, or of showing your own superiority. You may get the laugh on your side by it for the present; but you will make enemies by it for ever; and even those who laugh with you then, will, upon reflection, fear, and consequently hate you.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Strong, Hate, Reflection

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.93, Oxford University Press

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• I've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack.

  John le Carre

  Strong, Book, Writing

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• The power of habit is very strong.

  Publilius Syrus

  Strong, Habit

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• It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Strong Women, Mind, Well Known

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• The analogies between science and art are very good as long as you are talking about the creation and the performance. The creation is certainly very analogous. The aesthetic pleasure of the craftsmanship of performance is also very strong in science.

  Freeman Dyson

  Art, Strong, Talking

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• When I grew up, it was a time when women were just supposed to be cute and not have many opinions. My mother and her friends were quite different. They were all the most beautiful women you've ever seen ... and they were very strong women.

  Cher

  Cute, Beautiful, Mother

  "Cher Q&A: On her new tour, 'sloppy' Miley, and leather jackets". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 24, 2013.

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• My films often have a very strong strain of irony, or even sarcasm, which is definitely related to homosexual camp. But it is by no means straightforward: quite often I am sincere when I appear to be sarcastic, and I am sarcastic when I appear to be sincere. I also try to contradict myself at least once a day, which is a camp must.

  Bruce LaBruce

  Sarcastic, Strong, Mean

  "Brucito Subversivo". Interview with Jane Harris, logger.believermag.com. May 29, 2014.

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• One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Strong, Stupid, Faces

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• Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman.

  Cokie Roberts

  Strong Women, Thinking, Looks

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• Im very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

  George Hickenlooper

  Favors, Auteur Theory, Auteurs

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• I'm going to create a very strong scent which can kill a boy!

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Strong, Boys, Scent

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• Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does Venus squint? Has she got a splay-foot, red hair, and a crooked back? Anoint my eyes, good Fairy Puck, so that I may ever consider the Beloved Object a paragon! Above all, keep on anointing my mistress's dainty peepers with the very strongest ointment, so that my noddle may ever appear lovely to her, and that she may continue to crown my honest ears with fresh roses!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Beautiful, Eye, Hair

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Virginians: Christie's Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

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• The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is unlikely the way they're approaching it, they're going to find that enlightenment is very pleasurable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Buddhism, Discovery

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• I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend to suspect that in real life, there have always been very strong female characters, but at certain stages of society, they've been asked to cool it.

  William Gibson

  Strong, Real, Book

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I feel very strongly that we make decisions about what we're giving to the world, what we're withholding from the world, by virtue of what we put on our bodies.

  Meryl Streep

  Giving, Decision, World

  Source: movieweb.com

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• We safeguard the right to attribution very strongly. After all, what we are fighting for is the intent of copyright as it is described in the US constitution: the promotion of culture. Many artists are using recognition as their primary driving force to create culture.

  Rick Falkvinge

  Fighting, Artist, Culture

  "'Avast ye scurvy file sharers!': Interview with Swedish Pirate Party leader Rickard Falkvinge". Wikinews interview, en.wikinews.org. June 20, 2006.

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• I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.

  Dave Bautista

  Sports, Strong, Passion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Letting Go, Strong, Pain

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.94, Penguin

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• I always say that comedians and actors were all kind of shy when they were young. I was very, believe it or not, kind of embarrassed as a child. But my mother was a very strong lady and she was the one that kept it going when I thought it would be over for me as a performer. She was always my inspiration and she was a big influence on me.

  Don Rickles

  Mother, Strong, Children

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• In many parts of the world, including the Arab world, the Latin American world, and even parts of the Western world, there is a tradition of writers being quite engaged. Particularly in the Arab world you have had very, very strong traditions of literature and poetry and most of the writers have been deeply committed to the cause of the Arab nation.

  Tariq Ali

  Strong, Latin, Literature

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The people designing the weapons literally often didn't know how they were being handled in the field by the Air Force - and a lot of people in the Air Force didn't understand some of the dangers. There's a very strong element of madness in this.

  Eric Schlosser

  Strong, Air, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm always looking for directors who are very strong, they have great ideas, but on the other hand, that need help. It means they rely mostly on my eyes.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Strong, Mean, Eye

  Source: www.chud.com

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• I always have tendency to form very strong local attachments, so I was very keen to find out about the school I was going to, its history, and the countryside. I was acquiring a kind of English character if you like, Englishness about things and my attitudes.

  Ibn Warraq

  Strong, Attitude, School

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• My parents and grandparents always made me feel fortunate. I'm in a position to help others feel the same. It's just in my heart and is something I feel very very strong about.

  Kevin Martin

  Strong, Heart, Helping Others

  Source: thestartingfive.net

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