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The future belongs to us, because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment, we have the resourcefulness, and we have the strength of our people to share the dream across Africa of clean water for all.
– Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.
– James Cash Penney
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The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.
– Colin Farrell
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The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.
– John Frankenheimer
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The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.
– George W. Bush
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The fact that we're going through a crisis is an opportunity for Europe to be more coordinated and more integrated. We're actually talking about a European Monetary Fund or euro bonds, about guarantees for countries, about economic governance in the European Union. That shows the strength of Europe.
– George Papandreou
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The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.
– Steve Forbes
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The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.
– William Bligh
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The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.
– Edwin Booth
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The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.
– Andy Stern
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That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.
– Lindsey Buckingham
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That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.
– Edward Grey
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Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.
– Steven Cojocaru
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Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.
– Gijs de Vries
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Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it's a total body workout for your legs and abs, and works your heart and core unlike any other sport.
– Samantha Stosur
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Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
– Arnold Palmer
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Strength was the virtue of paganism obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
– David Hare
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Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.
– Joan Didion
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Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
– Judith Viorst
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Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.
– Russell Brand
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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
– Norman Vincent Peale
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
– Barbara Kingsolver
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Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.
– Esther Williams
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.
– Hermann Hesse
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Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
– Joseph Conrad
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Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor.
– John Bates Clark
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Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy.
– Debbie Stabenow
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So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.
– Sri Mulyani Indrawati
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So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.
– Jack LaLanne
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So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness.
– Angela Merkel
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Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.
– Henry Villard
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Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
– Henry Rollins
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Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.
– Amanda Burton
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Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.
– John Shimkus
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Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.
– Mitt Romney
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Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
– Ho Chi Minh
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
– E. O. Wilson
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Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.
– Jack Herer
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Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.
– Stafford Cripps
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President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.
– William J. Clinton
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Physical strength in a woman - that's what I am.
– Tina Turner
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Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
– Thomas Merton
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People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.
– Zoe Saldana
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People do not lack strength they lack will.
– Victor Hugo
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People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
– Dennis Prager
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Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.
– John Forsythe
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.
– Khalil Gibran
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Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy our existence challenges its life.
– Charlotte Bunch
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Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.
– Jennifer M. Granholm
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Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.
– Moshe Sharett
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Our passion is our strength.
– Billie Joe Armstrong
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Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.
– Robert Reich
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Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.
– Lech Walesa
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Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.
– Jay Alan Sekulow
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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
– James Dean
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Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
– Brian Tracy
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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
– Albert Schweitzer
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One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness.
– Mitch Landrieu
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One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.
– Bear Grylls
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Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.
– David Brainerd
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On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.
– Naomi Watts
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Now, I am about to be nailed as the man who disliked 'Howl's Moving Castle.' Lord, give me strength! Also, IT, please disconnect the e-mail thing.
– Stephen Hunter
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Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
– Agnes Smedley
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Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.
– Michelle Malkin
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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
– Saint Francis de Sales
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Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.
– William Moulton Marston
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Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.
– Gerhard Schroder
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My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density core strength exercise for a stable mid-section and stretching to maintain mobility.
– Samantha Stosur
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My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength.
– Anthony Anderson
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My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders.
– Miguel Indurain
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My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
– Marge Piercy
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My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.
– Stacy Keach
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My strength is my enthusiasm.
– Placido Domingo
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My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.
– Ariel Sharon
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My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.
– Benjamin Bratt
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My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk she sang. She was a tower of strength.
– Jayne Meadows
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My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it's a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month's time, so it's going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I'm good to go so far.
– Picabo Street
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My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.
– Olivia Williams
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My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
– Queen Elizabeth II
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My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.
– Ma Jian
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My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.
– Ernest Istook
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Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.
– Theodore C. Sorensen
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Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.
– Rachel Maddow
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May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.
– Swami Vivekananda
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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
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Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
– Sophia Loren
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Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.
– Don King
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
– Marquis de Sade
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Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.
– Charles Vest
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Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.
– Germaine Greer
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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
– Louis Pasteur
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Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.
– Shemar Moore
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It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.
– Carson Kressley
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It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
– Lance Reddick
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It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.
– Catherine Deneuve
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It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.
– Meghan O'Rourke
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It's a wonderful side effect of what we're doing, to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family, or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with, whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore.
– Davey Havok
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It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.
– Moshe Dayan
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