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• And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.

  Kurt Masur

  Strong, Enough, Grows

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• What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Change, Strong, Children

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• I still can’t say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I also know that I won’t go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life; I don’t think this is a strong enough motivation to bring more babies onto the earth.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Baby, Strong, Motivation

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.97, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way.

  Javier Bardem

  Strong, Thinking, Actors

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• She wished she hadn't succumbed to irritation. Because she wanted to know about his inner feelings. She always thought people were like pieces of art glass-- strong enough to handle and use, delicate enough to shatter under a strong blow, and filled with swirls of color that fascinated the eye. But while most people--and most glass--allowed light through, she could discern nothing of Devlin's heart and soul through the smoke and mirrors he held before him.

  Christina Dodd

  Art, Strong, Eye

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• I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

  Esther Williams

  Football, Strong, Swimming

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• Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

  Anne Michaels

  Strong, Children, Past

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.20, Emblem Editions

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• I prayed all the way up that hill yesterday, he said softly. Not for you to stay; I didna think that would be right. I prayed I'd be strong enough to send ye away. He shook his head, still gazing up the hill, a faraway look in his eyes. I said 'Lord, if I've never had courage in my life before, let me have it now. Let me be brave enough not to fall on my knees and beg her to stay.' He pulled his eyes away from the cottage and smiled briefly at me. Hardest thing I ever did, Sassenach.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Strong, Fall, Eye

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.437, Dell

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• It took a little over a decade to build a coalition strong enough to beat the insurance companies, but in 1990, then Senator Tom Daschle and I passed a law regulating the private market for supplemental Medicare insurance policies.

  Ron Wyden

  Strong, Law, Littles

  "Preserving the Medicare Guarantee: Why I’ve Been Working with Paul Ryan" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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• It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Persistence, Mind

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• Of course there is enough to stir our wonder anywhere; there's enough to love, anywhere, if one is strong enough, if one is diligent enough, if one is perceptive, patient, kind enough -- whatever it takes.

  William H. Gass

  Strong, Patient, Kind

  William H. Gass (1968). “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country & Other Stories”, p.192, David R. Godine Publisher

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• I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be.

  Robert Jordan

  Strong, Husband, Order

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• When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When were the fairy stories of the superstitious placed above criticism, beyond satire? A religion was not a race. It was an idea, and ideas stood (or fell) because they were strong enough (or too weak) to withstand criticism, not because they were shielded from it. Strong ideas welcomed dissent.

  Salman Rushdie

  Strong, Race, Fairy Stories

  Salman Rushdie (2012). “Joseph Anton”, p.345, Random House

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• And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible.

  James Agee

  Strong, Wish, Next

  James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.99, Penguin

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• I could not get my fill of looking. There should be a song for women to sing at this moment or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name that moment.

  Anita Diament

  Song, Strong, Prayer

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• It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Strong, Enough, My Sisters Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• You are out of control, Rand al'Thor,' she declared. I do what must be done,' he said, speaking now from the shadows. He sounded exhausted. ... I hate what you just did, Rand,' Nynaeve snarled. 'No, "Hate" isn't strong enough. I loathe what you've done. What has happened to you?' Test him!' Rand whispered, voice dangerous. 'Before condemning me, let us first determine if my sins have achieved anything beyond my own damnation.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Strong, Hate, Voice

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• No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.

  Jack London

  Strong, Pain, Hate

  Jack London (2015). “The Star Rover”, p.57, Booklassic

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• Only you could be more important than what I wanted...what I needed. What I want and what I need is to be with you, and I know I'll never be strong enough to leave again.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Strong, Important, Needs

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• Always remember, with a strong enough will, even the weak can wield great power.

  Kate Morton

  Strong, Remember, Enough

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her entirely. No matter how strong or weak I was, she was a part of me, as crucial as my own heart. I would never be strong enough, in all my life, to do without her.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Strong, Heart

  Sarah Dessen (2003). “How to Deal”, Puffin

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• As long as people have been on this earth, the moon has been a mystery to us. Think about it. She is strong enough to pull the oceans, and when she dies away, she always comes back again. My mama used to tell me Our Lady lived on the moon and that I should dance when her face was bright and hibernate when it was dark.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Strong, Ocean, Dark

  Sue Monk Kidd (2011). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.72, Hachette UK

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• It's really grinding to always play out of both sides of your mind and always be thinking what will offend people. Or what won't. But I'm strong enough to deal with that. I own that I'm freakish in my way.

  Johnny Weir

  Strong, Thinking, Play

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• Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fences, and the swimming brood climbs up only to fall back. Might it not be that in the dark pools of some men the evil grows strong enough to wriggle over the fence and swim free? Would not such a man be our monster, and are we not related to him in our own hidden water? It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

  John Steinbeck

  Strong, Fall, Angel

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• When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, cool and sweet as music over water but strong enough to shake the woods. And I said to myself, 'If that's not the Horn, call me a rabbit.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sweet, Strong, Air

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