Strongest Quotes - Page 14

• Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.

  Nadeem Aslam

  Grief, Mountain, World

  "Nadeem Aslam: a life in writing". Interview With Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

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• I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the strongest. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Men, Soldier

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (2010). “Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”, p.30, Penguin Books India

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• When the strongest nation in the world can be tied up for years in a war with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness, and when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration - then it's time for new leadership for the United States of America.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Leadership, War, Home

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• This ain't no garden party, brother, thisis wrestling, where only the strongest survive.

  Ric Flair

  Brother, Party, Wrestling

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• I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

  Harold Bloom

  Successful, Thinking, Greek

  "Divine (mis)readings". Interview with Harvey Blume, archive.boston.com. November 13, 2005.

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• Today, we are closer to fulfilling America's promise of economic and social justice because we stand on the shoulders of giants like Dr. King, yet our future progress will depend on how we prepare our next generation of leaders. We must fortify their ladders of opportunity by correcting social injustice, breaking the cycle of poverty in struggling communities, and reinvesting in our schools. Education can unlock a child's potential and remains our strongest weapon against injustice and inequality.

  Barack Obama

  Kings, Children, Struggle

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• Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

  Edward Weston

  Way, Composition, Seeing

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• When all our efforts have come to nothing, we naturally tend to doubt not just ourselves, but also whether God is just. At those moments, our only hope is to seek every evidence that God is just, by communing with the people we know who are strongest in faith.

  Bill Moyers

  Faith, People, Effort

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• One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.

  Thomas Paine

  Kings, Giving, Lions

  Thomas Paine (2016). “Common Sense”, p.12, Coventry House Publishing

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• I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer

  Michael Bolton

  Mentor, Proud, Singers

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• Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.

  Livy

  Men, Danger, Spite

  Livy (1967). “The early history of Rome: Books I-V of The history of Rome from its foundation”

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• In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.

  Charles Babbage

  Law, Rewards, England

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).”, p.13

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• The law of evolution is that the strongest survives.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Law, Evolution

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.97, Hachette UK

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• De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive powers generated by this same impulse.

  Saul Bellow

  Underestimate, Democratic, Impulse

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

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• I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me - to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.

  Audre Lorde

  Mother, Father, Men

  "Zami: A New Spelling of My Name". Book by Audre Lorde, 1982.

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• The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be known.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

  "On the revolutions".

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• Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth

  Theodor Reik

  Children, Romance, Parent

  Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.166, Transaction Publishers

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• Fear is the strongest driving-force in competition. Not fear of one's opponent, but of the skill and high standard which he represents; fear, too, of not acquitting oneself well. In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

  Franz Stampfl

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

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• Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Heart, Sea

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• The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.

  Robert Breault

  Friendship, Two, Devil

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• You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.

  Sean O'Casey

  Wall, Cells, Ideas

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• Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sex, Together, Important

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  The truth is always the strongest argument.

  Sophocles

  Truth, Understanding, Prussia

  "Phædra". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 737,

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• Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.

  Chris Bliss

  God, Race, Soul

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• Profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason, and it is the superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief.

  Humphry Davy

  Thinking, Profound, Mind

  Sir Humphry Davy, J. D., John DAVY (M.D., F.R.S.) (1851). “Salmonia: or, Days of fly fishing ... By an Angler i.e. Sir Humphry Davy . Third edition. With plates”, p.168

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