Strongest Quotes - Page 20

• The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Thinking, Land

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.128, University of Chicago Press

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• Our griefs, as well as our joys, owe their strongest colors to our imaginations. There is nothing so grievous to be borne that pondering upon it will not make it heavier; and there is no pleasure so vivid that the animation of fancy cannot liven it.

  Jane Porter

  Art, Grief, Color

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.136

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• For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy out of the strongest possible natural positions.

  William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

  War, Enemy, World

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• The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

  Robert Frost

  Science, Towns, Telescopes

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.315, Harvard University Press

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• I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for counting is both possible and useful. Is it not remarkable that 6 sheep plus 7 sheep makes 13 sheep; that 6 stones plus 7 stones make 13 stones? Is it not a miracle that the universe is so constructed that such a simple abstraction as a number is possible? To me this is one of the strongest examples of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. Indeed, I find it both strange and unexplainable.

  Richard Hamming

  Simple, Effectiveness, Numbers

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• Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also carry infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe through Italy and France, already threatened by the strongest domestic Communist parties in Western Europe. The Soviet Union was playing one of the greatest gambles in history at minimal cost. It did not need to will all the possibilities. Even one or two offered immense gains. We and we alone were in a position to break up the play.

  Dean Acheson

  War, Party, Two

  "Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department". Book by Dean Acheson, 1969.

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• The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Reading, School, Math

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• This sacrifice of a pawn nowadays is only played for drawing purposes. Especially against the very strongest masters it has proved to be quite useful to this end.

  Jan Hein Donner

  Sacrifice, Drawing, Purpose

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• Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but nothing will efface his origins, the marks of which he carries with him everywhere. I think it is important to know this and even find it a matter for rejoicing, as the strongest people do, regardless of their station. On this acceptance, literally, the life of a writer depends.

  James A. Baldwin

  Acceptance, Thinking, Origin Of Life

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• Thought is the strongest thing we have.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Belief

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• The key word is flexibility, the ability to adapt constantly. Darwin said it clearly. People thought that he mainly talked about survival of the fittest. What he said was that the species that survive are usually not the smartest or the strongest, but the ones most responsive to change. So being attentive to customers and potential partners is my best advice--after, of course, perseverance and patience.

  Philippe Kahn

  Perseverance, Keys, People

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• All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

  Ovid

  Love, Life, Fall

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• The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Friendship, Horse, Sacrifice

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• First thoughts are the strongest.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Firsts

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• Love is the strongest medicine.

  Neem Karoli Baba

  Love Is, Medicine

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• The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.

  John Milton

  Heaven, Despair, Spirit

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 44

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• A bright smile has the strongest electrifying power to lift up the sagging morale and light up a depressed face effortlessly and immediately.

  Anuj

  Light, Sagging, Faces

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• The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we've enlisted to do the work we couldn't handle - the horse, donkey, elephant, camel, water buffalo, ox, yak - is an herbivore... whose huge muscles were built from plant protein, and whose strong bones got that way, and stayed that way, from grazing on grass and eating other vegetables.

  Victoria Moran

  Horse, Strong, Animal

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• New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African musical practice in the United States, and, cliches aside, that practice really did travel up the Mississippi and did spread overland.

  Ned Sublette

  Practice, Keys, New Orleans

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• A strongest man is the loneliest one

  Khem Veasna

  Men

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• Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.

  Douglas Hurd

  Europe, Germany, Economic

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• The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action.

  Lowell Milken

  Recognition, Action, Social

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• A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.

  B. F. Skinner

  Hands, Culture, Novelty

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• The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Real, Fantasy, Neurotic

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.57, BookBaby

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• I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

  Amy Tan

  Strength, Mother, Art

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