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  Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

  Edna Ferber

  Lonely, Past, People

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• It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

  Nigel Farage

  People, Giving, Immigration

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• The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

  John Cornyn

  Long, Enemy, Islam

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• At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

  David Cameron

  Cutting, Errors, Hype

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• But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

  Robert Browning

  Fall, Eye, Laughing

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.241, Wordsworth Editions

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• I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.

  Tony Abbott

  Thinking, Political, Subjects

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

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• When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York.

  Joe Namath

  New York, Stress, League

  "Ladies love Teflon Tom -- no matter what" by Jemele Hill, www.espn.com. January 31, 2008.

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• They don't allow you to go any further unless you can do this bomb suit training, because it puts such a mental strain on your spirit. It dumbs you down about 25 to 30 IQ points. You start to hallucinate in the heat inside the suit after 20-30 minutes. So you try not to stay in it too dang long. So the preparation for that - it's either you have it, or you do not.

  Jeremy Renner

  Long, Preparation, Training

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• For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that there aren't that many books left for me to write, so I've become determined that they should be the fictive equivalent of ripping the damn corset off altogether and chucking it on the fire.

  Will Self

  Book, Writing, Fire

  "Will Self: modernism and me" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2012.

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• Gerry?' Laurel had to strain to hear thought the noise on the other end of the line. 'Gerry? Where are you?' 'London. A phone booth on Fleet Street.' 'The city still has working phone booths?' 'It would appear so. Unless this is the Tardis, in which case I'm in serious trouble.

  Kate Morton

  Phones, Cities, Lines

  Kate Morton (2012). “The Secret Keeper”, p.272, Pan Macmillan

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• Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard trying to distinguish between the author's persona and the poem's lyrical hero. As a rule, such distinctions are quite meaningless, if only because a lyrical hero is invariably an author's self-projection.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Art, Book, Hero

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• She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dirty, Clothes, Illusion

  Hunter S. Thompson (1999). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Book, Reading, Glasses

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton: A List of All the Ms. Emendations in Mr. Collier's Folio, 1632”, p.13

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• All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous effects of its stresses and strains on whatever thrives on its surface. The ambitions and dreams of men are irrelevant to this planetary giant which pursues its own way in its own manner. Man is its child, tenant and still, to this date, its captive.

  Jack Kirby

  Dream, Children, Stress

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• The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face

  Quentin Crisp

  Morning, Keys, Faces

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• Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cracks, Decay, Slides

  Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 5 (1936)

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• Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.

  Hanna Rosin

  Males, Different, Routine

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• Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.

  Hanna Rosin

  Home, Brain, Arousal

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• All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Real, Capitalism, Hybrid

  Geoff Mulgan (2015). “The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

  Don Van Vliet

  Thinking, Play, Horny

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• The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

  John Updike

  Education, Children, Father

  John Updike (1963). “The Centaur”, Ballantine Books

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• Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

  Bram Stoker

  Thinking, Mad, Long

  Bram Stoker (1904). “Dracula”, p.330, Hayes Barton Press

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• If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.

  Arlen Specter

  War, Cancer, Thinking

  "Specter Claims Kemp Would Be Alive if Congress Better Funded Medical Research", www.foxnews.com. May 4, 2009.

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• Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal policies that can strain a joint currency.

  Amity Shlaes

  Country, Independent, Europe

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• As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.

  Cleveland Abbe

  Running, Men, Growing

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