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That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

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Champions have to have the skill and the will, and the will must be stronger than the skill.

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Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.

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The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.

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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

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Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

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Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

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The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

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The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

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My voice is stronger today than ever.

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

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Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.

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As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.

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The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.

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These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.

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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

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Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

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What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

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If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.

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I want a guy who is masculine, good with his hands and able to build stuff and who has survival skills. Facial hair is a big turn-on. Most of the kids I hang out with in New York are hipster arty types, but I like a stronger, more physically imposing man - like a lumberjack.

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Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.

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Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system.

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Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

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Today I want to send a message of optismism to all Greeks. Our road, our path, will be more stabilised. Our country will be in a better situation. We will be stronger.

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Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.

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Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

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A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.

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But I think anybody who believes I could force coach Sloan to resign is crazy. He's stronger than that and personally if I said that to him, he'd probably go tell me to go do something.

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We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.

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A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.

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Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it, but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.

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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

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I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to.

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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

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Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

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Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

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We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

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An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger.

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Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

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Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

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My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

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A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.

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If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

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This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.

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In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion.

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I feel, you know, empowered because I gave life. I have a son now. I feel like I'm stronger.

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Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

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What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

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The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.

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Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

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All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity.

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Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.

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I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.

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God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.

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There are younger, stronger swimmers coming up and they are hungry. I can't influence what they do, I only know what I can do and I know how greedy I am to defend my title.

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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

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On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

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I don't know what cancer did to me but I put on probably 10 pounds of muscle and got a lot stronger in the weight room and during our dry-land stuff.

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I'm a goody two-shoes who's never taken anything stronger than Tylenol.

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I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.

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To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance.

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A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.

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What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

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I am just trying to get biblically stronger.

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The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.

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You know how the Beatles broke off - they all did their solo projects and they came back together and they were even stronger!

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I think the recovery hasn't been stronger because the hole that was dug for President Obama by the Bush administration was far worse than anybody could imagine, first of all.

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The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.

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Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is removed from power, he will eventually harm our nation and our allies. Every moment we delay allows him to grow stronger.

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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

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The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It's perfect.

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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

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The fact that I am as lean as I was in 2008, I'm stronger than I was in 2008 I think I have the potential to be as fast as I was.

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We have no stronger ally anywhere in the world than Israel.

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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

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Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

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There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man's making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.

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People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the paradox, in general the stronger the position.

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I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles.

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All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

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The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which contains the denouement or culmination and which will leave the strongest impression upon the reader.

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For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

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Now, I don't think President Obama and Vice President Biden get the credit they deserve for saving us from the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes. Our economy is so much stronger than when they took office.

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Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

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We will emerge stronger as a diverse community; the area will be rebuilt with life around the clock, new buildings, restaurants, places of entertainment.

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I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right.

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I say I am stronger than fear.

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In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

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The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument.

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The game overall has gotten so much better, stronger, more physical parts to the game.

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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.

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