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• At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Reality, People, Community

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• I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia the next day. Although I like baseball, I kept this engagement only because I felt that my presence at a sporting event might be a gesture of reassurance to a country suffering from a severe attack of 'jitters.'

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Baseball, Next Day

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Justice, Revolution, Virtue

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• One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

  Oscar Wilde

  Relaxation, Should, Unemployed

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1690, GENERAL PRESS

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• I think that when you look at the great politicians, the two greatest in my view were George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, they certainly had character traits. You also know Abraham Lincoln overcame severe depression problems that he had when he was younger, which gave him the strength and the character later on.

  John McCain

  Inspirational, Strength, Strong

  "Encore Presentation: Interview With John McCain". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. November 20, 2005.

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• Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

  Irving Penn

  Responsibility, Kansas, Interesting

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• We live in a time of turmoil. Earthquakes and tsunamis wreak devastation, governments collapse, economic stresses are severe, the family is under attack,
  and divorce rates are rising. We have great cause for concern. But we do not need to let our fears displace our faith. We can combat those fears by strengthening our faith.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Stress, Divorce, Earthquakes

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• Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenges are events in life, not life itself. I do not minimize how hard some of these events are. They can extend over a long period of time, but they should not be allowed to become the confining center of everything you do.

  Richard G. Scott

  Disappointment, Sadness, Events In Life

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• You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Drawing, Logic, Reason

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• Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.

  Ivan Pavlov

  School, Accumulation

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• This is a huge problem. If we don't deal with this within just a few years, you will have island nations flooded; you will have the agricultural balance of most countries completely changed; you will have a dramatic increase in the number of severe, unmanageable weather events... And the good news is that we can now deal with this problem - and strengthen our economic growth, not weaken it.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Islands, Years

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• The little black dress must be luxurious, rich, sensual, diaphanous, exotic, severe, lush, demure, demanding, frivolous, amusing, and it must linger in memory, but above all, it must be simple and little and black.

  Carolina Herrera

  Memories, Simple, Black

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• Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian people are a race of sheep.

  Benito Mussolini

  Italian, Sheep, Race

  "Fascism and Democracy in the Human Mind : A Bridge Between Mind and Society" by Israel W. Charny, (p. 23), 2006.

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• Of all the things we can feel with our minds and bodies, severe pain is the purest, for it drives everything else from our awareness and focuses us as perfectly as we can ever be focused.

  Dean Koontz

  Pain, Mind, Body

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.376, Bantam

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• That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.

  Peter Drucker

  Retirement, Jobs, Organization

  "The Shape of Things to Come: An Interview with Peter F. Drucker". Leader to Leader, No. 1, 1996.

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• There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer is gentle and kindly where another man is severe and unkind.

  William Saroyan

  Pride, Men, Knowing

  William Saroyan (1992). “The Man with the Heart in the Highlands & Other Early Stories”, p.141, New Directions Publishing

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• Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.

  Aristotle

  Crush, Pain, Adversity

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

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• When I stopped drinking... there were so many things I had to face that I didnt even realize were part of my makeup before. When you do that and have any changes that severe, you lose a lot of things, both good and bad.

  Jason Isbell

  Drinking, Makeup, Faces

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• The weird thing about metal fans is we're all so maladjusted in a lot of ways. We're individualistic and opinionated and severe in our personalities - sometimes we really turn each other off. A little bit of a metal fan goes a long way.

  Corey Taylor

  Metal Fans, Long, Personality

  "Metal bands: Ignored but still angry". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2012.

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• Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectations.

  Bryan Caplan

  Selfish, Expectations, Political

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• There are studies that tell us that stress and lack of self-image, lack of self-esteem, severe dieting, binge dieting and binge eating can also be very damaging to a body and bring on various kinds of abnormalities.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Self Esteem, Stress, Dieting

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on formalism. There was a bulletin board in the Moscow Conservatory. They posted the decree, which said Shostakovichs compositions and Prokofievs were no longer to be played.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Boards, Moscow, Firsts

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• I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and twitter to contrive fiction.

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden

  Thinking, People, Google

  "Tor Editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden On the Future of SF Books". Interview with Annalee Newitz, io9.com. August 26, 2009.

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• It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong, or it might descend like a sudden catastrophe, this blankness between ourselves and the rest of the world. The blankness might not even be obvious to others. But on our side of that severed connection, it was hell, a life lived behind glass. The only difference between mild depression and severe schizophrenia was the amount of sound and air that seeped in.

  Tracy Thompson

  Differences, Glasses, Air

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• May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn in others

  Jerry Bridges

  May, Sin, Subtle

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “Respectable Sins”, p.121, NavPress

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