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• As a kid, I was always sick. I had pneumonia, I had really severe allergies. And it wasn't until I got older, that I realized some of that was caused by toxins in things like detergent. That made me crazy, because it's supposed to help get things clean!

  Jessica Alba

  Crazy, Kids, Pneumonia

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• We bow our heads in respect for those Soviet women who displayed exceptional courage in the severe time of war. Never before but during the days of the war the grandeur of spirit and the invincible will of our Soviet women, their selfless dedication, loyalty and affection to their Homeland, their boundless persistence in work and their heroism on the front manifested themselves with such strength.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Loyalty, War, Persistence

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• I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag, whereas they are responsible for burning that for which the flag stands: the United States as a territory, as a people, and as a biological manifestation. That is an example of our perennial confusion of symbols with realities.

  Alan Watts

  Reality, People, Confusion

  "Individual and Society". Audio lecture,

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• Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.

  Edward Coke

  Men, Made, Libel

  77 Eng. Rep. 250, 1605.

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• The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and it is in this sense of violent rigour and extreme condensation of scenic elements that the cruelty on which it is based must be understood. This cruelty, which will be bloody when necessary but not systematically so, can thus be identified with a kind of severe moral purity which is not afraid to pay life the price it must be paid.

  Antonin Artaud

  Order, Theatre, Passionate

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.122, Grove Press

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• This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence -- but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Life, Motivational, Encouraging

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales”, Vintage

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• lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Government, Justice, Revolution

  Speech to the National Convention on February 05, 1794. "The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923." Book by Edward Hallett Carr, Volume 1, p. 154, 1951.

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• Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable. For punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment; while punishment, when ill-awarded under the influence of greed and anger or owing to ignorance, excites fury even among hermits and ascetics dwelling in forests, not to speak of householders.

  Chanakya

  Ignorance, Punishment, Dwelling

  "Arthashastra". Book by Chanakya, Translated by R. Shamasastry. Bangalore: Government Press, Book I: "Concerning Discipline", Chapter 4 "Determination of the Place of Varta and of Dandaniti", 1915.

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• I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.

  Peter Greenaway

  Nice, Musical, Uptight

  Peter Greenaway (1999). “Eight and a half women”, Dis Voir Editions

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• If you refrain from judging your worst enemy, his children will come to your side. What more severe judgment could come upon an enemy than this?

  Sun Myung Moon

  Children, Worst Enemy, Your Side

  "The Way of God's Will" by Sun Myung Moon, (Chapter 1-7. Judgement), 1980.

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• While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances.

  Byron White

  Knowledge, Responsibility, Science

  Harmelin v. Michigan 501 U.S. 957 at 1023, 1991.

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• Every age and degree of understanding should have its proper measure of discipline. With regard to boys and adolescents, therefore, or those who cannot understand the seriousness of the penalty of excommunication, whenever such as these are delinquent let them be subjected to severe fasts or brought to terms by harsh beatings, that they may be cured.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Boys, Should Have, Discipline

  Benedict Of Nursia (2015). “St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries”, p.30, Benedict Of Nursia

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• Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt "strange inside" two or three times during my life.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Thinking, Two, Three

  "Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 3rd edition. Chapter 2: "Student Years", p. 34, 1991.

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• What I remember about being painted was a very severe atmosphere. I remember her intensity and sharp glance.

  Andrew Neel

  Atmosphere, Portraiture, Remember

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• To combat depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection -- a procedure which can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Evil, Deception

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• Deficit financing proper is rather the process whereby a Government spends more money that it withdraws from the economy by taxation, borrowing, running down reserves, etc.; thereby causing in most circumstances, and very acutely in ours, monetary inflation and severe pressure on the balance of payments.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Running, Government, Balance

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 249), March 29, 1967.

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• The Treasury plan is a disgrace: a bailout of reckless bankers, lenders and investors that provides little direct debt relief to borrowers and financially stressed households and that will come at a very high cost to the US taxpayer. And the plan does nothing to resolve the severe stress in money markets and interbank markets that are now close to a systemic meltdown.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Stress, Littles, Bankers

  "Not so much bail-out as rip-off". www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2008.

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• We have to separate here the church in its broad sense. We have Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox churches. The Catholic church is a corporation like a chief executive. A fairly homogenous operation. Today its attitude toward anti-Semitism is much more severe than it's ever been. The Catholic Church today is much less the problem than the other groups.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Attitude, Church Today, Catholic

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fashion, Art, Serious

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• An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Heart, Riches, Devotion

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.21

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• Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils.
  [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]

  Tacitus

  Power, Council, Cautious

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• I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Evil, May

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• Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead to healing, but not if the circle of concern is so tight that it cannot be broken into, or out of.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Healing, Circles, Broken

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.95, Open Road Media

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• you know a person is having a severe personality crisis if you see a high school class ring on a finger beyond the first semester in college. Male or female. It's a big sign saying nothing has mattered to my life since senior year.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Senior, School, College

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

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• There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

  John Dewey

  Intelligent, Discipline, Development

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.114, Kappa Delta Pi

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