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• The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.

  Angus Wilson

  Writing, Novelists, Admirer

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• It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe....It is foolish to do so when the problem is largely hypothetical and not substantiated by observations....we do not currently have any convincing evidence or observations of significant climate change from other than natural causes.

  Frederick Seitz

  Cutting, Convincing Evidence, Environmental

  "2008 Climate Debate" by William F. Jasper, www.thenewamerican.com. March 31, 2008.

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• It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe...

  Frederick Seitz

  Cutting, Environmental, Problem

  "2008 Climate Debate" by William F. Jasper, www.thenewamerican.com. March 31, 2008.

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• If the Obama administration responds with an even harsher hand against me, they can be assured that they'll soon find themselves facing an equally harsh public response.

  Edward Snowden

  Hands, Administration, Response

  "Today's Live Q&A With NSA Leaker, Edward Snowden". The Guardian's live question and answer session, www.commondreams.org. June 17, 2013.

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• Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

  William Wordsworth

  Humanity, Sad Music, Hearing

  'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey' (1798) l. 88

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• The young boys I speak with say to me: Why would I want to live in this world - where they rely on charity, dry pieces of bread and water, where they are subjected to harsh treatment, when they can be free and be the envy of their colleagues in the afterlife. They are only too eager to sign on the dotted line and join the ranks of the Taliban.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Boys, Afterlife, Envy

  "Children taught to be suicide bombers" by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, www.cnn.com. June 15, 2010.

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• Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Fate, Dark, Sunshine

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• Believe it or not, fame is not as glamorous as it seems. I think it is much harder now with all of the media outlets, and people can be pretty nasty and harsh.

  Kim Kardashian

  Believe, Thinking, Media

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• Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

  Jorge Garcia

  Reality, People, Mixing

  "Jorge Garcia, the one-man Greek chorus who helped explain Lost" by Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• Kids can be harsh, especially when they get jealous.

  Alia Shawkat

  Jealous, Kids, Get Jealous

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2010.

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• We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing.

  Terrence Howard

  Beautiful, Ugly, Sides

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• What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we are imprisoning too many people for merely possessing illegal drugs; second, drug and other criminal sentences are too long and harsh, and third, the criminal justice system is unjustly punishing young black men. These are among the great urban myths of our time.

  John P. Walters

  Commitment, Views, Law

  "Bush's drugs boss is unfit for office, say civil rights groups" Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

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• The work of Jana Harris is unique in American writing. She has always had a voice of true grit—sometimes harsh, sometimes funny, always close to the bone, tart, and indomitable.

  Alicia Ostriker

  Writing, Unique, Voice

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• Space is a harsh, inhospitable frontier and we are explorers, not colonisers. The skills of our engineers and the technology surrounding us make things appear simple when they are not, and perhaps we forget this sometimes. Better not to forget.

  Luca Parmitano

  Technology, Simple, Skills

  "Astronaut recounts his near-drowning on spacewalk". www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2013.

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• The harsh, unyielding reality of having to compromise your ideals bit by bit, day by day, just to achieve a few little victories in the face of the world’s malice, or indifference. Until sometimes you wonder if there’s nothing left of you but the shell of the man you intended to be, just going through the motions because you’ve nothing better to do.

  Simon R. Green

  Reality, Men, Victory

  Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.124, Penguin

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• I slapped my face two or three times with both hands, as hard as possible. The slapping hurt. It snapped me to attention. My adrenaline started flowing... the Yugoslavs, sitting in the next lane stared at me in disbelief. The harsh slapping made me angry-exactly what I wanted. I did my best work when I was angry.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Hurt, Hands, Two

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• Be harsh with yourself at times.

  Seneca the Younger

  Reflection

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• Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

  Natan Sharansky

  Peace, Attention, Racist

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• Mitch McConnell, 72, is second only to Henry Clay as the state'€™s most consequential public servant. McConnell's skills have been honed through five terms. He is, however - let us say the worst - not cuddly. National Review has said he has 'an owlish, tight-lipped public demeanor reminiscent of George Will.' Harsh. But true.

  George Will

  Skills, Clay, Notable

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• I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Heart, Rome

  "My Early Life: A Roving Commission" by Winston Churchill, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958.

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• And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.

  Lesley Garrett

  Woven, Fabric, Existence

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• There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. It's a first approximation, but one that is real. In the former, the factors of integrity tend to dominate more over the factors of ideology. It's not that scientists are more honest people. It's just that nature is a harsh taskmaster. You can lie or distort the story of the French Revolution as long as you like, and nothing will happen. Propose a false theory in chemistry, and it'll be refuted tomorrow.

  Noam Chomsky

  Integrity, Real, Lying

  "Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent". Book by Robert F. Barsky, 1997.

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• If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and icy winds of adversity which inevitably come to each of us.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Adversity, Wind, Storm

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• Player haters be givin' me harsh looks,
  But I'm tryin to sell records like Garth Brooks.

  Big L

  Rap, Player, Hip Hop

  Song: Nigga Please, 2003

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• The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality was too much, too absurd. This was the case with the story of the cat who roamed from one trench to another and in the film ended up being imprisoned. In reality, the tom cat was accused of spying and was arrested by the French army, and then shot according to regulations.

  Christian Carion

  Character, Cat, Army

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