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• This country to-day [is] the last stronghold of freedom, standing like a rock in a tide that is threatened to submerge the world.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Country, Rocks, World

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• There's no doubt that Boko Haram has been driven from many of its strongholds in northeastern Nigeria. Now, President Muhammadu Buhari says technically, we have won the war. Those in the know say but technically, the army is still losing the battle because Boko Haram has changed tactics. Instead of now holding territory as it used to and calling this territory its own, now it is resorting to guerrilla tactics, hit-and-run raids and especially suicide bombings.

  Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

  Suicide, Running, War

  "Nigeria Declares Victory Over Boko Haram - But Do Nigerians See It That Way?". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 27, 2015.

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• The only truly new ideas [the right] has come up with in the last twenty years are (1) supply side economics, which is a way of redistributing the wealth upward toward those who already have more than they know what to do with, and (2) creationism, which is a parallel idea for redistributing ignorance out from its fundamentalist strongholds to those who know more than they need to.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Ignorance, Years, Ideas

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

  Karl Marx

  Tools, Despotism, Native

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• China and Russia play very different roles. They both are getting involved across the world in all different pockets. Their tentacles are everywhere. Russia is doing it through elections and through military actions and through trying to get involved in conversations. China is doing it economically. If you look at their infrastructure, they are everywhere in the world now and they want to continue to do that so that they have a stronghold.

  Nikki Haley

  Military, Russia, Play

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sweet, Cooking, Devil

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.99

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• What a shame that Christianity had come here!If the white man had not intruded where he was not wanted, where he did not belong, even now protected by the mountains and the river,the village would have remained a last stronghold of a culture which was almost gone.Mark tried to say that no village,no culture can remain static. I have often thought that if this lively and magnificent land belongs to anyone,it's to the birds and the fish.They were here long before the first Indian and when the last man is gone from the Earth,it will be theirs again.

  Margaret Craven

  Men, Land, Rivers

  Margaret Craven (1973). “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”

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• We see nation-states collapsing all around us: Libya, Syria, Iraq. We do not want another failed state in our neighborhood, which would rapidly turn into a stronghold for terrorists, as we have seen in Gaza. We do not want tunnels to suburbs of Tel Aviv or missiles pointed at Jerusalem.

  Ayelet Shaked

  Iraq, Tunnels, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds.

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Hurt, Loss, Challenges

  Leah Hager Cohen (2003). “Heart, You Bully, You Punk”, Viking Press

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• For there is always a sanctuary more, a door that can never be forced, a last inviolable stronghold that can never be taken, whatever the attack; your vote can be taken, you name, you innards, or even your life, but that last stonghold can only be surrendered. And to surrender it for any reason other than love is to surrender love.

  Ken Kesey

  Taken, Love Is, Doors

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• The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

  E. O. Wilson

  Rain, Years, Historical

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• It is a natural stronghold for them—they can infest this maze of iron and water like a horde of starving cockroaches, and they’ll be just as hard to anticipate and to kill in such close quarters.” “Wow,” Shane said. “You really know how to drum up team spirit. Did you print up Team Total Fail jerseys, too?” Myrnin gave him an entirely crazy smile. “Would you be surprised if I had?

  Rachel Caine

  Crazy, Team, Iron

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn”, p.64, Allison & Busby

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• And there shall be a flame-green daybreak soon. And love itself will cry for insurrection! For tomorrow is also a day - and Titus has entered his stronghold.

  Mervyn Peake

  Flames, And Love, Green

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.408, The Overlook Press

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• As far as the earth is from the stars, and fire from the sea, so is the useful from the right. Power over men perishes completely if justice begins to be observed, and respect for individual rights overcomes strongholds.

  Lucan

  Wisdom, Stars, Men

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• I love you Lord, you are my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior. And my God is my rock in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the strength of my salvation, and my stronghold. I will call on the Lord who is worthy of praise. I praise the Lord, my God, my best friend, for giving me the ability, the desire, the love and the guidance that brought me here today. Without you, I would be nothing.

  Gary Carter

  Love You, Rocks, Giving

  Gary Carter, Phil Pepe (2008). “Still a Kid at Heart: My Life in Baseball and Beyond”, p.214, Triumph Books

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• When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Perseverance, Jesus, Crazy

  "Bethany Hamilton; AnnaSophia Robb". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. March 31, 2011.

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• We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more than a century after slavery was officially ended in its last strongholds, the trade in human beings for any purpose must not be allowed to thrive in our time.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Two, Evil

  Third Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 23 September 2003, New York, NY

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• Riches are a stronghold in the imagination of a rich man.

  Solomon

  Men, Imagination, Riches

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• 872, Ivar, King of the Northmen of all Ireland and Britain , ended his life." He had conquered Mercia and East Anglia. He had captured the major stronghold of the kingdom of Strathclyde, Dumbarton. Laden with loot and seemingly invincible, he settled in Dublin and died there peacefully two years later. The pious chroniclers report that he "slept in Christ." Thus it may be that he had the best of both worlds.

  Winston Churchill

  Kings, Years, Two

  Winston Churchill (2004). “A History of the English Speaking Peoples 01. The Birth of Britain.”

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• The stronghold of the contemplation of Christ's glory affords the soul rest, for it will be made evident that our troubles grow on the root of an over-valuation of temporal things. The mind is its own greatest troubler.

  John Owen

  Roots, Soul, Mind

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• The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Superstitions, Pillars, Sabbath

  William Lloyd Garrison (1852). “Selections from the Writings and Speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an Appendix ...”, p.100

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• Sean Óg ó Hailpín.... his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold.

  Micheal O Muircheartaigh

  Mother, Father, Fiji

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• College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.

  Noel Gallagher

  Football, College, Hypocrisy

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• All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Practice, Agency, Self

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• The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp--with remembrance of Virginia, with remembrance of dear ancestral Britain.

  James Lane Allen

  Book, Virginia, Remembrance

  James Lane Allen (2016). “The reign of law. A tale of the Kentucky hemp fields.”, p.2, Aegitas

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