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• The harsh reality is that America moves on four wheels, powered by conventional internal-combustion engines. At this point, while the elite media (excluding Newsweek) trumpet the benefits of hybrids and Ford and Toyota plan to lead the nation into a low-powered, high-mileage hybrid Utopia, the multitudes remain loyal to the gas-guzzling family bus in the driveway.

  Brock Yates

  Moving, Reality, Media

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• I think we have to continue to protect women on social media, who are coming out in a world that can still be very harsh towards them, so that they do not feel that they are alone. And of course, some of these attacks happen on social media, so we do need to provide a counter narrative - a supportive narrative - so that the voices of those that are punitive towards women does not become the dominant voice.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Thinking, Supportive, World

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• When I was on an American show in 2015, I tried to talk about the threat Vladimir Putin posed to the free world. The interviewer said, "Wake me up when he takes over Poland." We heard something similar from years ago and we ended up with World War Two. Putin decided to skip Poland and went straight to Wisconsin. Putin is at war, a hybrid war, with the free world. His domestic propaganda is based entirely on a strong man challenging the free world. When the demonstrations around Russia began, the harsh response was because it was more important to show strength.

  Garry Kasparov

  Strong, War, Men

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.

  Amy Chua

  Thinking, Chinese, Balance

  "Is strict parenting better for children?". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2011.

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• After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable.

  John Paul Stevens

  Yankees, Giving, Judging

  Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338, supreme.justia.com. 2007.

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• Postal will be so politically incorrect and harsh, it's like a mirror to American society, and I don't think the movie will be well received by everybody. For example, Osama Bin Laden will be one of the lead characters - I think that shows the mood of the movie.

  Uwe Boll

  Character, Thinking, Mirrors

  "Uwe Boll bites back" by Ellie Gibson, www.eurogamer.net. February 15, 2006.

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• Fashion matters to the degree that it is, for the sighted person, the first language we speak to each other. We are... "judge" is a very harsh word, but we're taking in and we're evaluating. Who is this person? What do I have in common? Do I respect them? All of that is that unspoken visual impact.

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Fashion, Judging, Common

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Fearless people,Careless needle.Harsh words spoken,And lives are broken.

  Seal

  People, Broken, Fearless

  Song: Prayer for the Dying, Album: Seal (1994), 1994

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• Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less; Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Pain, Rain, Heaven

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2012). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.173, Courier Corporation

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• Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.

  Kobe Bryant

  Children, Wrestling, Greatness

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• I want to know if you are prepared to live in the world with its harsh need to change you. If you can look back with firm eyes saying this is where I stand.

  David Whyte

  Eye, Needs, Looks

  David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.60, Penguin

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• Progressive visions pale and are smashed next to the normalization of market-driven government policies that wipe out pensions, eliminate quality health care, punish unions, demonize public servants, raise college tuition, and produce a harsh world of joblessness - all the while giving billions and huge bonuses, instead of prison sentences... to those bankers and investment brokers who were responsible for the 2008 meltdown of the economy and the loss of homes for millions of Americans.

  Henry Giroux

  Home, Loss, College

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Without a doubt. It's woven into our DNA in a very deep way and so to kind of be smacked in the face with the hypocrisy of the America that we were sold was a liberating and harsh experience.

  Bill Ayers

  Dna, America, Hypocrisy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I didn't know at the time I was writing Because of Winn-Dixie where the story came from, but in retrospect I can see that it was a response to a terribly harsh winter here in Minnesota.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Winter, Dixie

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is, but I'm going to also tell you that there's every reason to hope.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Children, Dangerous World, Stories

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• In the national security establishment, it is somewhat frowned upon for people to take extremely harsh partisan roles in campaigns.

  John Heilemann

  People, Campaigns, Roles

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Living in London, the water is really harsh, and my hair got so bad as soon as I moved there. But you can't really avoid that.

  Margot Robbie

  Hair, Water, London

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Pop music can somehow survive being inhibited and mangled by its harsh and stupid commercial chains, and there is surely irreducible potential because of the 'star system' and the volatile attention pop receives for multiples of wickedness, ridicule, discontent, eccentricity, desire to thrive importantly in a genuinely popular context.

  Paul Morley

  Stars, Stupid, Desire

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• I'm using the laws of the nation to my benefit. And I should do that, it's to my benefit. Now, when, if I am running the country I will use that same ability that I have, because I have always had the ability to make a lot of money. I'll use that same ability to make our nation rich again, because it sounds like, not nice, some people said, oh that's a harsh word, "rich". We can't be great again until we are rich.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Country, Nice

  Source: www.economist.com

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• In retrospect I wrote things about my life and my family's existence, I realized that it was a frighteningly harsh way to make a living. And I used to say that they were slowly dying trying to make a living.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Dying, Trying, Retrospect

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [Ho Chi Minh] was always conscious that conditions in China and Vietnam were not always the same. He "kowtowed" to the Chinese - as he had to the Soviet Union - in order to receive their assistance, but he quietly worked to limit those forms of influence of which he did not approve (such as the harsh forms of land reform and the Great Leap Forward). Unfortunately, he was not always successful in fending off those forms of external advice that he didn't agree with.

  William J. Duiker

  Successful, Order, Land

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• Mandatory minimum sentences give no discretion to judges about the amount of time that the person should receive once a guilty verdict is rendered. Harsh mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses were passed by Congress in the 1980s as part of the war on drugs and the "get tough" movement, sentences that have helped to fuel our nation's prison boom and have also greatly aggravated racial disparities, particularly in the application of mandatory minimum sentences for crack cocaine.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Giving, Judging

  "Michelle Alexander: “Zimmerman Mindset” Endangers Young Black Lives with Poverty, Prison & Murder". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 17, 2013.

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• I think theres just this mystique of writing a book that appeals to people. A person has to really check their motives and say, Am I really being called by God to do this? Or is this just something that would look neat in my funeral? I dont mean to be harsh but I think a person really needs to, so they wont be disappointed.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.

  Michael Connelly

  Critics

  "Michael Connelly Talks about his New Series (and his Brand New Character)". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. July 17, 2017.

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• Probably the most cold-hearted thing I ever did. There was this spider in my shower - and I'm usually very kind to all of the creatures of the world - and you feel very vulnerable when you're naked, and I didn't really want to be near this spider he was kinda big and gnarly looking. The only thing that I could reach in the shower was this hairspray. So I hairspray-ed this spider to death, which was awful. I felt like such a jerk. It was really, really harsh.

  Patrick Stump

  Gnarly, Cold Hearted, Naked

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