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• The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.

  William Falconer

  Anchors, Made, Stations

  William Falconer (2012). “Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)”, p.8, BoD – Books on Demand

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• On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.

  Daniel Webster

  Morning, Military, Power

  Speech in the Senate on the President's Protest, 7 May 1834

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• I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here.

  Charles Stross

  Atheist, Reform, British

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• One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.

  Booth Tarkington

  Boyhood, Natural, Invention

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “Penrod”, p.31, Booklassic

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• There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything. You have to find out by what happens to you, how you will react. I'll have to use a strange term here... "good." I don't know where it comes from, but I feel that there's an ultimate strain of goodness born in each of us. I don't believe in God, but I believe in this "goodness" like a tube running through our bodies. It can be nurtured. It's always magic, when on a freeway packed with traffic, a stranger makes room for you to change lanes... it gives you hope.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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• The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.

  Oswald Chambers

  Life Is, Ifs

  Oswald Chambers (2002). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Garborg's

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• This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind -- the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in line and file to the strains of music falls below my contempt; he received his great brain by mistake -- the spinal cord would have been amply sufficient. This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism -- how intensely I despise them! War is low and despicable, and I had rather be smitten to shreds than participate in such doings.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Mistake, Fall

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• Were it not for the consciousness of Christ in my life, hour by hour, I could not go on. But He is teaching me the glorious lessons of His sufficiency, and each day I am carried onward with no feeling of strain or fear of collapse.

  Hudson Taylor

  Teaching, Feelings, Each Day

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• Where the environment is too soft and luxurious and no strife is required for survival, not only are weak strains and individuals allowed to survive and encouraged to breed but the strong types also grow fat mentally and physically.

  Madison Grant

  Strong, Survival, Environment

  Madison Grant (2012). “The Passing of the Great Race”, p.30, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Men, Giving

  George Eliot (1875). “Silas Marner ; And, Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.224

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• Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct, which has become hardened into customs and habits, to these changing moral conceptions. When this adjustment is not made, we suffer from the strain and indecision of believing one hypothesis and acting upon another.

  Jane Addams

  Believe, Ideas, Suffering

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.15, Youcanprint

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• When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said - it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions.

  E. B. White

  Ideas, Differences, Choices

  "Writers at Work". Interview with George Plimpton, Frank Crowther in Paris Review, 1969.

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• I should describe mine own nature as tripartite, my interests consisting of three parallel and dissociated groups - (a) Love of the strange and fantastic. (b) Love of the abstract truth and of scientific logick. (c) Love of the ancient and the permanent. Sundry combinations of these three strains will probably account for all my odd tastes and eccentricities.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Groups, Three, Taste

  Letter to Reinhardt Kleiner (7 March 1920), in "Selected Letters I, 1911-1924" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (p. 110), 1964.

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• Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is so conspicuous among the educated and well-to-do precisely because they are exposed to more information, and are accordingly forced to choose between living with the strains of complexity, or lapsing into simplism.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Simple, Political, Want

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1975). “Coping: On the Practice of Government”, Vintage Books USA

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• My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a real tough strain of alcoholism. It goes back generations and generations, so that you can't remember when there was a sober grandfather.

  Sam Shepard

  Dad, Real, Grandfather

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• When I was a little bit younger The strain I was under could make me cry. Now I'm a little bit older, A little bit bolder, Never so shy

  Zooey Deschanel

  Shy, Littles, Cry

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• If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a music grander and sweeter even than the song of angels, when the great Composer shall transpose all the strains of earth from the minor into the major, when the wail of nature shall give way to the glad harmony of the everlasting jubilee.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Song, Believe, Angel

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 555, 1895.

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• Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Military, Fall, Empires

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (1998). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.9, Basic Books

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• Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!

  Alexander Pushkin

  Heart, Sound, Moscow

  "Eugene Onegin". Book by Alexander Pushkin, 1833.

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• Each step, each strain of the eye Opens out a new horizon; And every day throws in our way Something new, to grow more wise on.

  Robert B. Leighton

  Wise, Wisdom, Eye

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• There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations of evil; it is they who are responsible for the woes of mankind. The dismissal of the individual's responsibility for his own misery is the quintessence of clericalism.

  John Carroll

  Responsibility, Evil, Woe

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.64, Taylor & Francis

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• My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love. When the gentle fingers of Music knock at the door of our feelings, they awaken memories that have long lain hidden in the depths of the Past. The sad strains of Music bring us mournful recollections; and her quiet strains bring us joyful memories. The sound of strings makes us weep at the departure of a dear one, or makes us smile at the peace God has bestowed upon us.

  Khalil Gibran

  Memories, Past, Doors

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• A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.

  Jack Vance

  Men, Rope, Break

  "To Live Forever". "Emphyrio" by Jack Vance, (Chapter XVI, section 3), 1956.

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• The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Anxiety, Done, Disease

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.159, Penguin

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• The institution of private property... is undergoing, at this time, a strain never put on it before. Not because the corporation, in essence, is retrogressive or unrepublican, but because in fact, it is unrepublican, and for that reason retrogressive also.

  Peter S. Grosscup

  Essence, Politics, Corporations

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