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• If I read the Bible, I can also find a few harsh verdicts. Every religion can be abused. We're not talking here about religion and faith. We are talking about the politicization of Islam, and, by the way, it is first and foremost exerting pressure on the majority of peaceful Muslims who live here in Germany.

  Alice Schwarzer

  Talking, Peaceful, Islam

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• People are very harsh critics of animated humans.

  Henry Selick

  People, Animated, Critics

  "Director Henry Selick Comic-Con Interview – Talks CORALINE and Next Project". Collider Interview, collider.com. July 25, 2009.

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• Sometimes you've gotta hide the medicine in the food. You can't slap somebody in the face with facts, all the time. It's too harsh.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Medicine, Faces, Facts

  Source: collider.com

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• I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight.

  Deepika Padukone

  Jobs, Luxury, Half

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

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• I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.

  Jennifer Harrison

  Hostile, Amount

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• Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.

  Ralph Ellison

  Faces, Injustice, Shows

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “Going to the Territory”, p.91, Vintage

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• endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be a harsh and bitter root in one's life, bearing poisonous and gloomy fruit, destroying other lives. Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Acceptance, Roots, Joy

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• Neither can we admit that definition of genius that some would propose--"a power to accomplish all that we undertake;" for we might multiply examples to prove that this definition of genius contains more than the thing defined. Cicero failed in poetry, Pope in painting, Addison in oratory; yet it would be harsh to deny genius to these men.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Example, Would Be

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.196

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• Welcome, Disappointment! Thy hand is cold and hard, but it is the hand of a friend. Thy voice is stern and harsh, but it is the voice of a friend. Oh, there is something sublime in calm endurance, something sublime in the resolute, fixed purpose of suffering without complaining, which makes disappointment oftentimes better than success!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Disappointment, Hands, Voice

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.155

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• As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though inwardly wincing, can calmly pursue his way to the restful grave, while his old, harsh voice is softly cadenced into sweetest melody, like the faint notes of an angel's whispered song. As patience deepens, charity and sympathy increase.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Christian, Sweet, Song

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• I'm always very self-conscious and assume the way faith or religion might come up in my plays will seem very harsh to people of faith, or who are currently practicing.

  Stephen Karam

  Self, Play, People

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.

  Katherine Paterson

  War, Loss, Reality

  Katherine Paterson (2012). “Read for Your Life #21”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I completely reject the idea that working adults need to be treated like infants or worse and not told the realities, harsh or not, about the world of work. Keeping people in the dark and filling them with stories that are either mostly fabricated, unusually rare, or both, doesn't do anyone any good. It is one of the reasons that workplaces and careers remain in such dire straits.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Dark, Reality, Careers

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Too many people believe they can control their drug of choice. But the drug is almost always in control. If an addict truly wants help, it is available, but it is a rocky path. The monster always calls. Never give an addict money. Clothe them. Feed them. But enabling them is the quickest path to watching them fade away completely. This may seem harsh. But I've watched my own child relapse, after six years sober. I love her. Always. But I can't help her die.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Children, Believe, Years

  Source: monsterlibrarian.com

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• If I had to guess what the new Etch-A-Sketch picture is going to be like, it's going to be considerably less to the right. Romney has backed himself into a couple of corners that I don't think will serve him well in the general election, the main one being very harsh stands on immigration, which I think are not only short-sighted but to my mind immoral.

  Anna Quindlen

  Couple, Thinking, Mind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When we grew up in Vancouver our friends were - I don't know if I'd say callous, but we had a very, you know, harsh relationship with one another; we'd constantly make fun of each other.

  Seth Rogen

  Fun, Vancouver, Grew Up

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• Here is, in truth, the whole secret of Yoga, the science of the soul. The active turnings, the strident vibrations, of selfishness, lust and hate are to be stilled by meditation, by letting heart and mind dwell in spiritual life, by lifting up the heart to the strong, silent life above, which rests in the stillness of eternal love, and needs no harsh vibration to convince it of true being.

  Patanjali

  Spiritual, Strong, Hate

  Patanjali (2013). “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.29, Lulu Press, Inc

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• One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.

  Krishna Das

  Forgiving, Lessons, Learn To Forgive

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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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• [Bob] Dylan, like Johnny Cash and only a handful of others, simultaneously embodies the American dream and the harsh wake-up call that comes after it.

  Jay Michaelson

  Dream, Cash, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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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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• 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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• 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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