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• From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.

  Orson Scott Card

  Clever, Enemy, Loses

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.148, Macmillan

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• A dog — a dog teaches us so much about love. Wordless, imperfect love; love that is constant, love that is simple goodness, love that forgives not only bad singing and embarrassments, but misunderstandings and harsh words. Love that sits and stays and stays and stays, until it finally becomes its own forever. Love, stronger than death. A dog is a four-legged reminder that love comes and time passes and then your heart breaks.

  Deb Caletti

  Dog, Heart, Simple

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• Faith is stronger than so-called reality.

  Hermann Hesse

  Reason

  "Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays".

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• You aren't going to go crazy," I said firmly. "You're stronger than you think. The next time you feel that way, find something to focus on, to remind you of who are." "Like what? Got some magic object in mind?" "Doesn't have to be magic," I said. I racked my brain. "Here." I unfastened the golden cross necklace. "This has always been good for me. Maybe it'll help you." I set it in his hand, but he caught hold of mine before I could pull back

  Richelle Mead

  Crazy, Thinking, Hands

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• Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Kindness, Exercise, Compassion

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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• The ties that bind us are stronger than the occasional stresses that separate us.

  Colin Powell

  Stress, Ties, Occasional

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• The more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable. They can begin to think for themselves.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Government

  "Barack Obama Criticises Internet Censorship at Meeting in China". www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2009.

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• There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

  Saul Bellow

  Passion, Heart, Voice

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• You are my heart, my soul,” he said, his arms going around my waist and holding me tightly. “As you are mine,” I repeated. The magic in the air got stronger, thrumming through the forest, matching the rhythm of our breathing, matching the beating of our hearts. “Dance with me, this night and for the rest of our nights,” he said. “For as long as the moon shines in the sky and for as long as we live underneath her.

  Keri Arthur

  Heart, Night, Moon

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• I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never cry. It's not that I'm stronger than the ones with teary eyes, I'm weaker. They have courage. When all you are is skin and bones, feelings are a brave thing. I'm more of a coward. The difference is minimal though, I just use my strength not to cry. When I do allow myself a feeling, I take the part that hurts and bandage it up with a story that doesn't cry, that doesn't dwell on homesickness.

  Herta Muller

  Hurt, Eye, Differences

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• When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give a kind of background to another's grief, against which it stands out more clearly. Whereas in your story the characters cry and you sigh. Yes, be more cold. ... The more objective you are, the stronger will be the impression you make.

  Anton Chekhov

  Kindness, Grief, Character

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• Cancer is such a frightening and emotional roller coaster. It's a ride we all want to get off! My best advice is, find the 'glue' that will hold you together - whether it's religion, family, friends, music, yoga, a hobby or a cancer support group. Even our pets can be amazing healers. Be patient and don't give up. Trust me when I say you will come out changed and stronger on the other end of this.

  Brenda Jones

  Giving Up, Cancer, Yoga

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• We remember the grind of the insurgency -- the roadside bombs, the sniper fire, the suicide attacks. From the 'triangle of death' to the fight for Ramadi; from Mosul in the north to Basra in the south -- your will proved stronger than the terror of those who tried to break it.

  Barack Obama

  Suicide, War, Fighting

  Obama's Speech to Troops at Fort Bragg, www.nytimes.com. December 14, 2011.

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• So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of you, we are ending these wars in a way that will make America stronger and the world more secure. Because of you.

  Barack Obama

  War, Men, America

  Remarks on the End of the War in Iraq, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 14, 2011.

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• Better than I was, more than I am
  And all of this happen by taking your hand
  And who I am now is who I wanted to be
  And now that we're together
  I'm stronger than ever I'm happy and free

  Tim McGraw

  Music, Who I Am, Hands

  Song: It's Your Love Written By Stepheny Smith

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• All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter what type of athlete you are - there were no athletes better than I was, there was no one who had more going for him than I did, there was no athlete stronger mentally than I was.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Motivational, Football, Couple

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• The statement "I am in pain" may be one piece of evidence for the conclusion that the speaker is in pain, but it is not the only possible evidence, and since people sometimes tell lies, not even the best possible evidence. Even if there were stronger grounds for refusing to attribute pain to those who do not have language, the consequences of this refusal might lead us to reject the conclusion. Human infants and young children are unable to use language. Are we to deny that a year-old child can suffer?

  Peter Singer

  Children, Pain, Lying

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• I cried for madder music and for stronger wine,
  But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire,
  Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine.

  Ernest Dowson

  Fall, Wine, Night

  Ernest Dowson, (2013). “The Poems And Prose Of Ernest Dowson”, p.37, Read Books Ltd

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• As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one of his main ideas, you know, that the males of almost all animals have stronger passions than the females. Since then we've learned a thing or two. At any rate, the female snake is right there when spring arrives in the woods.

  Will Cuppy

  Spring, Passion, Men

  Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”

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• Slowly, but surely, we are moving in the right direction. We're on the right track. The economy is getting stronger

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Track, Economy

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• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God. Not in doing what you like but in liking what you do is the secret of happiness.

  James M. Barrie

  Life, Men, Miracle

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• The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.

  Edmund Waller

  Time, Home, Dark

  'On the Foregoing Divine Poems' l. 18

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• The stronger our gun control laws are, the fewer acts of violence.

  Joe Lieberman

  Gun, Law, Violence

  "Connecticut school shooting reignites gun control debate". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 16, 2012.

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• For a long time, the scientists have been telling us global warming increases the temperature of the top layer in the ocean, and that causes the average hurricane to become a lot stronger. So, the fact that the ocean temperatures did go up because of global warming, because of man-made global warming, starting around in the '70s, and then we had a string of unusually strong hurricanes outside the boundaries of this multi-decadal cycle that is a real factor; there are scientists who point that out, and they're right, but we're exceeding those boundaries now.

  Al Gore

  Strong, Real, Ocean

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 13, 2006.

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• For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Perfection, Being Thankful

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.50, CUP Archive

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