Strongest Quotes - Page 13

• Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.

  Carl Lewis

  Sports, Want, Discrimination

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• It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion this is the strongest of the reasons for circumcision.

  Maimonides

  Men, Circumcision, Opinion

  Moses Maimonides (1963). “The Guide of the Perplexed”

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• Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct – but the whole effect is more expressive of spiritual grandeur than anything I could have imagined. It makes the impression upon one that thousands of voices do, uniting in one unanimous simultaneous feeling of enthusiasm or emotion, which is said to overcome the strongest man.

  Florence Nightingale

  Spiritual, Men, Voice

  Florence Nightingale, G?rard Vall?e, Lynn McDonald (2003). “Florence Nightingale on Mysticism and Eastern Religions: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.260, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Feelings, Together

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.53, Penguin

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• I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag full of mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can.

  James Frey

  Dirty, Mushrooms, Want Something

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.153, Rutgers University Press

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• What is so powerful here is that we have the first federal appellate court and it's a case coming out of Utah affirming in the strongest, clearest, boldest terms that the Constitution guarantees the freedom to marry and equal protection for all Americans and all means all, including gay couples.

  Evan Wolfson

  Couple, Powerful, Mean

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• There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make human sacrifices to their god, perhaps even sacrificing those they loved the best ... Then, during the moral epoch of humanity, people sacrificed the strongest instincts they had, their 'nature,' to their god... Finally: what was left to be sacrificed? ... Didn't people have to sacrifice God himself and worship rocks, stupidity, gravity, fate, or nothingness out of sheer cruelty to themselves?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Sacrifice, Fate

  "Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche, Chapter III, Aphorism 55, 1886.

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• In Europe, where climate change absolutism is at its strongest, the quasi-religion of greenery in general and the climate change issue in particular have filled the vacuum of organised religion, with reasoned questioning of its mantras regarded as a form of blasphemy.

  Nigel Lawson

  Europe, Issues, Climate

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• The "name" of the Most Holy Trinity is in a certain way impressed upon everything that exists, because everything that exists, down to the least particle, is a being in relation, and thus God-relation shines forth, ultimately creative Love shines forth. All comes from love, tends toward love, and is moved by love, naturally, according to different grades of consciousness and freedom... The strongest proof that we are made in the image of the Trinity is this: only love makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and be loved.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Names

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• Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Adversity, Wind

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• The strongest inpression remaining with me after watching the wolves...was their friendliness towards each other.

  Adolph Murie

  Friendliness

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• There is one view of the subject which ought to have its influence on those who espouse doctrines which strike at the authoritative origin and efficacious operation of the Government of the United States. The Government of the U.S. like all Governments free in their principles, rests on compact; a compact, not between the Government & the parties who formed & live under it; but among the parties themselves, and the strongest of Governments are those in which the compacts were most fairly formed and most faithfully executed.

  James Madison

  Party, Government, Views

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• A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the enjoyment of liberty. Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Cities, History

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith”, p.359

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• Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years.

  Tim Holden

  Country, Democracies Have, Years

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• The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

  Norm Dicks

  Environmental, Tools, Decline

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• The strongest presence is so often an absence.

  Steve Rasnic Tem

  Absence

  Steve Rasnic Tem (2012). “Deadfall Hotel”, p.57, Solaris

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• A little happy house is the strongest castle in this whole universe!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  House, Castles, Littles

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• I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself.

  Barry Webster

  Giving, Monsters, Way

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• Love is the most ferocious and strongest force on the planet.

  Greg Cipes

  Love Is, Force, Planets

  "Michelangelo Knows Best – An Interview with Greg Cipes". Interview with Dak, www.wired.com. March 1, 2013.

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• Well in the comic book world, I think the Hulk is the strongest, but I think I'd give him a heck of a fight!

  Daniel Cudmore

  Book, Fighting, Thinking

  "Daniel Cudmore Interview by Meg Brown". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• And I am convinced that a single focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dollar, in effect, guarding against inflation or deflation, actually creates a solid foundation for the greatest job growth and the strongest economy that America can have.

  Kevin Brady

  Jobs, America, Focus

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• The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.

  Tom Peters

  Perception, Human Nature, Force

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• One of the strongest feelings you can get in life--one of the most rewarding feelings--is the feeling of an "Aha, I finally understand."

  Penn Jillette

  Feelings

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• My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.

  Albert Einstein

  People, World, Situation

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.222, Princeton University Press

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• Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all... Never was a chain that couldn't be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea.

  Bruce Coville

  Ideas, Broken, Sometimes

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