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«The common strain in my work is that in each case I celebrate a moment when the individual responded to his or her own humanity.»
Author: J. Steward Johnson, Jr. | Keywords: strain
«The dark-veiled silhouette that solitary form patrolling without visible strain or vainglory a demented dreamland of fearful potential.»
«The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention»
«The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.»
«The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.»
«The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat.»
«Till old experience do attain / To something like prophetic strain.»
«Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi (Philosopher) | About: Unity | Keywords: breaking, severest, strain, unity
«We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in»
«The pipe, with solemn interposing puff,Makes half a sentence at a time enough;The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain,Then pause, and puff -- and speak, and pause again.»

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