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• Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history

  Michel Foucault

  Errors, Long, Baking

  Michel Foucault (1980). “Language, Counter-memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews”, p.144, Cornell University Press

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• I've always said even the most hardened pro-choice people would be just devastated to watch an actual birth and then watch a baby be killed before their eyes.

  Kevin Sorbo

  Baby, Eye, People

  "Kevin Sorbo on playing John Calvin in “Let the Lion Roar,” plans for a “God’s Not Dead” sequel and his support of the “Gosnell” movie". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened and more alienated. We experience ourselves as being separate from the whole. This separateness becomes like a prison for us - a prison that restricts us to our personal hopes and fears, and to caring only for the people nearest to us. Curiously enough, if we primarily try to shield ourselves from discomfort, we suffer. Yet, when we don't close off, when we let our hearts break, we discover our kinship with all beings.

  Pema Chodron

  Truth, Fear, Heart

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• Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Heart, Tears, Tragedy

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1985). “Bottoms up!”

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• It is a melancholy consideration that there should be several among us so hardened and deluded as to think an oath a proper subject for a jest; and to make this, which is one of the most solemn acts of religion, an occasion of mirth. Yet such is the depravation of our manners at present, that nothing is more frequent than to hear profligate men ridiculing, to the best of their abilities, these sacred pledges of their duty and allegiance; and endeavouring to be witty upon themselves, for daring to prevaricate with God and man.

  Joseph Addison

  Witty, Men, Thinking

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, etc. The present state of the war. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The evidences of the Christian religion. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Poems on several occasions. Translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poemata. Rosamond. Cato. The drummer”, p.181

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• When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?

  John Calvin

  Children, Father, Men

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.56, Baker Books

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• Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book.

  Robert Barr

  Book, Men, Issues

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• I am skilled now, at casting iron To make a hardened bed for my heavy world

  Happy Rhodes

  Iron, Casting, Bed

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• being a member of the court is a lot like walking through fresh concrete. Do you remember doing that as a child and leaving a footprint and it hardens after you? I'm afraid that's what we do and we look back and we see those opinions we've written and they've sort of hardened after us.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Children, Law, Leaving

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• The gods and their tranquil abodes appear, which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with showers, nor does the white snow, hardened by frost, annoy them; the heaven, always pure, is without clouds, and smiles with pleasant light diffused.

  Lucretius

  Clouds, Light, Wind

  "De Rerum Natura". Book by Lucretius, III. 18,

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• Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.

  John Ruskin

  Imagination, Healthy, Mind

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.214, University of Virginia Press

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• Let's be frank: if there are hardened terrorists [Australian] who are fighting overseas, we don't want to see those people come back to our shores. But if we could stop youngsters, teenagers from falling into the snares of ISIL or Jabhat al-Nusra or other terrorist organisations through parental intervention and other strategies then, we hope to be able to rescue them before they commit these crimes.

  George Brandis

  Teenager, Fall, Fighting

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I try to explain the difference to a client between cleaning and restoration.Cleaning is simply removing some light to moderate soils. Restoration is removing those hardened deposits and stains that require heavier cleaners and much more time. Or on a building that has just been built or renovated it's removing all the construction debris. Setting expectations can go a long way to having and keeping satisfied customers.

  Tony Evans

  Light, Differences, Long

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• Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor.

  Paul Stamets

  Mushrooms, Tree, Looks

  "Chaga, the Clinker Fungus: This Mushroom Looks Scary But Can Benefit Health" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2012.

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• Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

  Frances Hardinge

  Men, Thieves, Doe

  Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.

  Mitch Albom

  New York, Years, Cities

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.14, Broadway Books

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• If your vulnerability has become hardened, it's very, very difficult to be creative.

  Michael Ventura

  Creative, Difficult, Ifs

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Substance, World

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.461, e-artnow

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• Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Fighting, Enemy

  Order of the Day, delivered 6 June 1944

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• Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Tradition, Form, Notion

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• Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no longer sensibility at all. It has hardened into an idea.

  Susan Sontag

  Ideas, Mold, Tools

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.160, Macmillan

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• The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, and we need not see ourselves as being rigidly divided by a single categorization of hardened groups, which confront each other.

  Amartya Sen

  Lying, Simple, Diversity

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• I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint our toenails hardened. Our favorite videos gathered dust. Her small apron was in a box in the attic. Her shoes - the sparkly ones, the leopard rain boots, the ballet slippers - stood in a corner.

  Ann Hood

  Daughter, Mother, Rain

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• The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fall, Winter, Hands

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• Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Indulge In, Degrees

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “Island”, p.269, Random House

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