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Source: The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...

“As a kid, I was always sick. I had pneumonia, I had really severe allergies. And it wasn't until I got older, that I realized some of that was caused by toxins in things like detergent. That made me crazy, because it's supposed to help get things clean!”

Made Helping Kids Crazy Sick Clean I Realized Severe Allergies Toxins Pneumonia

Author:Jessica Alba

“We bow our heads in respect for those Soviet women who displayed exceptional courage in the severe time of war. Never before but during the days of the war the grandeur of spirit and the invincible will of our Soviet women, their selfless dedication, loyalty and affection to their Homeland, their boundless persistence in work and their heroism on the front manifested themselves with such strength.”

War Spirit Fronts Affection Loyalty Persistence Soviet Dedication Selfless Bows Heroism Severe Exceptional Homeland Grandeur Boundless Invincible

Author:Leonid Brezhnev

“I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag, whereas they are responsible for burning that for which the flag stands: the United States as a territory, as a people, and as a biological manifestation. That is an example of our perennial confusion of symbols with realities.”

People States Reality United United States Example Responsible Bills Confusion Symbols Burning Manifestation Territory Flags Penalties Amazed Severe Imposing Congressman American Flag

Author:Alan Watts

“Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.”

Ifs Men Persons Made Deserve Punishment Severe Libel

Author:Edward Coke

“The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and it is in this sense of violent rigour and extreme condensation of scenic elements that the cruelty on which it is based must be understood. This cruelty, which will be bloody when necessary but not systematically so, can thus be identified with a kind of severe moral purity which is not afraid to pay life the price it must be paid.”

Source: The Theater and Its Double

“For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is the reason why we see different persons disciplined with different crosses. The heavenly Physician takes care of the well-being of all his patients; he gives some a milder medicine and purifies others by more shocking treatments, but he omits no one; for the whole world, without exception, is ill (Deut 32:15).”

Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence -- but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious.”

Source: The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales

“lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue.”

Government Justice Virtue Revolution Terror Attributes Severe Prompts

Author:Maximilien Robespierre

“Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable. For punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment; while punishment, when ill-awarded under the influence of greed and anger or owing to ignorance, excites fury even among hermits and ascetics dwelling in forests, not to speak of householders.”

People Speak Wealth Influence Ignorance Greed Ill Dues Punishment Forests Enjoyment Productive Consideration Righteousness Awards Devoted Severe Fury Respectable Dwelling Owing Hermits

Author:Chanakya

“I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.”

Problem Nice Clean Musical Legs Severe Hypocritical Uptight Dustbin

Book:Eight and a half women

Source: Eight and a half women

“If you refrain from judging your worst enemy, his children will come to your side. What more severe judgment could come upon an enemy than this?”

Ifs Children Sides Enemy Worst Judging Judgment Severe Refrain Your Side Worst Enemy

Author:Sun Myung Moon

“While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances.”

Law Science Responsibility Knowledge Drug Consequence Flow Tolerance Substance Severe Cocaine Prohibition Misuse Collateral

Author:Byron White

“Severe isn't a word normally associated with a cold. Severe is for weather or third-degree burns...No one responds 'severe' when someone asks how her cold is.In fact, nine out of ten Americans respond to 'How's your cold' with 'It sucks.' So there should be an It Sucks cold formula.”

Should Facts Asks Cold Ten Degrees Thirds Nine Weather Formulas Severe

Author:Celia Rivenbark

“Every age and degree of understanding should have its proper measure of discipline. With regard to boys and adolescents, therefore, or those who cannot understand the seriousness of the penalty of excommunication, whenever such as these are delinquent let them be subjected to severe fasts or brought to terms by harsh beatings, that they may be cured.”

Should May Age Understanding Term Boys Discipline Degrees Should Have Regard Penalties Harsh Severe Seriousness Delinquents Excommunication

Book:St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries

Source: St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries

“Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt "strange inside" two or three times during my life.”

Thinking Two Hard Problem Three Felt Hours Produce Strange Severe Three Times Fatigue Breakdown

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“What I remember about being painted was a very severe atmosphere. I remember her intensity and sharp glance.”

Remember Atmosphere Intensity Severe Glances Portraiture

Author:Andrew Neel

“To combat depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection -- a procedure which can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end.”

Want Mean Ends Suffering Evil Economics Crisis Productions Credit Cures Deception Combat Expansion Severe Banking Procedures Very Mean Misdirection

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Deficit financing proper is rather the process whereby a Government spends more money that it withdraws from the economy by taxation, borrowing, running down reserves, etc.; thereby causing in most circumstances, and very acutely in ours, monetary inflation and severe pressure on the balance of payments.”

Government Running Process Economy Balance Circumstances Pressure Etc More Money Reserves Severe Taxation Inflation Deficit Payment Monetary Borrowing Financing

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“The Treasury plan is a disgrace: a bailout of reckless bankers, lenders and investors that provides little direct debt relief to borrowers and financially stressed households and that will come at a very high cost to the US taxpayer. And the plan does nothing to resolve the severe stress in money markets and interbank markets that are now close to a systemic meltdown.”

Littles Doe Plans Cost Direct Stress Debt Relief Resolve Investors Household Severe Disgrace Reckless Taxpayers Bankers Stressed Treasury Lenders Bailouts Meltdowns Borrowers

Author:Nouriel Roubini

“Three classes inhabited the city (Alexandria in Egypt): first the Aegyptian or native stock of people, who were quick-tempered and not inclined to civil life; and secondly the mercenary class, who were severe and numerous and intractable...; and, third, the tribe of the Alexandrians, who also were not distinctly inclined to civil life, and for the same reasons, but still they were better than those others, for even though they were a mixed people, still they were Greeks by origin and mindful of the customs common to the Greeks.”

People Firsts Stills Reason Three Common Cities Class Thirds Greek Native Customs Severe Tribes Egypt Mercenary Alexandria

Author:Strabo

“[Gays and lesbians should be] Punished, in fact, killed. The people involved should be killed in the worst, most severe way of killing.”

People Way Should Facts Worst Involved Gay Killing Severe

Author:Ali al-Sistani

“In seasons of severe trial, the Christian has nothing on earth that he can trust to, and is therefore compelled to cast himself on God alone. When no human deliverance can avail, he must simply and entirely trust himself to the providence and care of God. Happy storm that wrecks a man on such a rock as this! O blessed hurricane that drives the soul to God--and God alone!”

Men Humans Soul Care Earth Christian Rocks Seasons Blessed Casts Storm Trials Providence Severe Compelled Hurricanes Wrecks Deliverance

Book:Morning by Morning

Source: Morning by Morning

“Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a bird capable, say, of catching insects in mid-air, with the result that birds of similar habitats tend to have very similar anatomies, whatever their ancestry. For example, American vultures look and behave much like Old World vultures, but biologists have come to realize that the former are related to storks, the latter to hawks, and that their resemblances result from their common lifestyle.”

“If you think back to the moments when you've gone through the most pain in your life, or the most severe anxiety, your body is very much involved in that. Your body is expressing those emotions. So, when we, as actors, try to access those feelings, the body is a great tool to use.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Moments Use Feelings Body Pain Actors Emotion Gone Involved Anxiety Tools Access Your Body Severe

Author:Joel Kinnaman

“God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray.”

Source: Through the Year with Martin Luther: A Selection of Sermons Celebrating the Feasts and Seasons of the Christian Year

“From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.”

Firsts Lasts Jesus Christ Simple Gentle Severe Majestic

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.”

Looks Pride Proud Assumption Carrie Feminine Submit Superiority Severe Submission Reinforcement Unbecoming Proud Woman

Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot

Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot

“Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.”

Art Use Purpose Artist Deals Fashion Objects Serious Higher Art Is Sacred Severe Employed

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.”

Heart Grows Fortune Riches Pursuit Devotion Severe Tranquil Inconsistent

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]”

Power Severe Council Cautious

Author:Tacitus

“Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead to healing, but not if the circle of concern is so tight that it cannot be broken into, or out of.”

Ifs Certain Healing Focus Broken Concern Illness Circles Contact Severe

Book:Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

“you know a person is having a severe personality crisis if you see a high school class ring on a finger beyond the first semester in college. Male or female. It's a big sign saying nothing has mattered to my life since senior year.”

Source: Sacred cows-- and other edibles

“There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.”

World Development Discipline Tests Intelligent Severe

Book:Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

Source: Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

“Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.”

May Important Proud Advantage Performances Excellence Envy Checks Resolution Severe Embarrassment Censure Avert Miscarriage Diffidence

Book:The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

“Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'”

People Ifs Want Giving Art Ends Social Genius Bunch Autism Severe Spectrum Genetics Autistic Nonverbal Yaks

Author:Temple Grandin

“Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.”

Order Beauty Grace Severe

Book:Barrow and Newton. Peleus and Thetis. The King of Ava and Rao-Gong-Fao. Photo Zavellas and his sister Kaido. Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa. The Empress Catharine and Princess Dashkoff. William Penn and Lord Peterborough. Miguel and mother. Metellus and Marius. Nicolas and Michel. Leofric and Godiva. Izaac Walton, Cotton, and William Oldways

Source: Barrow and Newton. Peleus and Thetis. The King of Ava and Rao-Gong-Fao. Photo Zavellas and his sister Kaido. Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa. The Empress Catharine and Princess Dashkoff. William Penn and Lord Peterborough. Miguel and mother. Metellus and Marius. Nicolas and Michel. Leofric and Godiva. Izaac Walton, Cotton, and William Oldways

“A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.”

Levels Genius Consequence Faults Critics Severe Detection

Book:The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].

Source: The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].

“While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.”

May States Seems Given United United States Economy Diversity Size Significant Locals Severe Unlikely Distortion Imbalance

Author:Alan Greenspan

“The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.”

People Thinking Firsts Stupid First Time Intelligent Stupidity Shock Discovering Severe

Book:Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas

Source: Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas

“The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.”