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“I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.”

Remember Strong Class Physics Biology Physiology

Author:Barbara Block

“Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.”

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Author:Edward Snowden

“This clay, so strong of heart, of sense so fine,Surely such clay is more than half divine--'Tis only fools speak evil of the clay,The very stars are made of clay like mine.”

Heart Made Evil Speak Strong Stars Half Mines Divine Fine Fool Clay

Book:Rubáiyát: English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version, with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliographies, and other material

Source: Rubáiyát: English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's version, with further selections, notes, biographies, bibliographies, and other material

“If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.”

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Author:Jimmy Breslin

“A strong mentor can help a young woman find and advance in the career of her dreams that otherwise may have seemed impossible.”

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Author:Kirsten Gillibrand

“My legacy doesn't matter. It isn't important that I be remembered. It's important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' I want to finish strong.”

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Author:James Dobson

“God, I feel like hell tonight. Tears of rage I cannot fight. I'd be the last to help you understand... Nothing's true and nothing's right so let me be alone tonight 'cause you can't change the way I am... I have a face I cannot show, I make the rules up as I go. It's try and love me if you can. Are you strong enough to be my man? When I've shown you that I just don't care, when I'm throwing punches in the air, when I'm broken down and I can't stand will you be man enough to be my man?”

“Producing major change in an organization is not just about signing up one charismatic leader. You need a group - a team - to be able to drive the change. One person, even a terrific charismatic leader, is never strong enough to make all this happen.”

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Author:John P. Kotter

“The record results for the third quarter once again demonstrate the ability of GE's diverse mix of leading global businesses to deliver top-line growth, increased margins and strong cash generation.”

Inspirational Strong Growth Lines Ability Results Records Generations Thirds Quarters Cash Diverse Margins Global Business

Author:Jack Welch

“There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and strong as Death, a mystic contemplation, the “intellectual love of God.” Those who have known it cannot believe in wars any longer, or in any kind of hot struggle. If I could give to others what has come to me in this way, I could make them too feel the futility of fighting. But I do not know how to communicate it: when I speak, they stare, applaud, or smile, but do not understand.”

Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

“If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.”

Ifs Want Belief Strong Religious Theater Religious Belief

Author:Marian Seldes

“We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and its a totally understandable need because we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in.”

People Needs Order Strong Animal Fit Labels

Author:Armin van Buuren

“I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, I can face it. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that.”

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Author:Cecelia Ahern

“We have a strong and credible broadband policy because the man who has devised it, the man who will implement it virtually invented the Internet in this country.”

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Author:Tony Abbott

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.”

Ifs Men Way Feels Mind May I Can Book Happens Strong Reader Touched Thank God I Can Read

Author:Walter Tevis

“We had very good discussions on current security challenges and NATO's continued adaptation to meet them. Canada is a committed ally and a capable contributor to international security. We appreciate your quick decision to deploy forces, planes and ships to strengthen our collective defence in view of Russia's aggressive actions in Ukraine, as well as your contribution to the international anti-ISIL coalition. Canada plays a major part in our decision-making and helps keep the vital bond between Europe and North America strong.”

“An extended stay in the wilderness inevitably directs one's attention outward as much as inward, and it is impossible to live off the land without developing both a subtle understanding of, and a strong emotional bond with, that land and all it holds.”

Strong Understanding Attention Impossible Land Emotional Developing Subtle Wilderness Inward Strong Emotional

Book:Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

“The best innovation comes from inclusive work environments that foster diverse ideas, nurture people with diverse talent and backgrounds, and create strong relationships with diverse communities.”

People Ideas Strong Community Environment Talent Innovation Backgrounds Diverse Nurture Work Environment Strong Relationship

Author:Mark Parker

“I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.”

Strong Believer Bipartisanship

Author:Mack McLarty

“I can't think of anybody...who knows the sum and substance of what I know and feel and cry about in my secret self all the time when I don't feel strong, the sorrows of time and personality, and can therefore on all levels make it all the way with me”

Thinking Knows Way Feels I Can Self Strong Levels Secret Cry Personality Sorrow Substance

Book:Visions of Cody

Source: Visions of Cody

“Researchers were surprised to find that people with strong self-control spent less time resisting desires than other people did. . . . people with good self-control mainly use it not for rescue in emergencies but rather to develop effective habits and routines in school and at work.”

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Author:Roy Baumeister

“Jose Enrique's strength is that he's very strong”

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Author:Kevin Keegan

“Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.”

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Author:Nicolas Berggruen

“I have a new name for pain. What's that? The Obliterator. Because when you're in pain, nothing else can exist. Not thought. Not emotion. Only the drive to escape the pain. When it's strong enough, the Obliterator strips us of everything that makes us who we are, until we're reduced to creatures less than animals, creatures with a single desire and goal: escape. A good name, then.”

Enough Pain Desire Names Strong Goal Animal Emotion Creatures Who We Are Strong Enough Eldest

Book:The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“Jesus Christ - He means the world to me. So many different situations I've been through, through my childhood and now my adulthood; I lost my brother at a young age. He got hit by a car right in front of me. I had to be strong for my mom.”

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Author:Adrian Peterson

“For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.”

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Author:Jim Jordan

“You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism.”

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Author:Kim Gordon

“Editorials are written by people who have agreed to have several strong opinions a day and to write them down, provided they do not have to sign their names.”

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Author:Dave Barry

“I never saw an athletic girl that thought she was strong enough to do indoor work.”

Enough Girl Strong Sex Saws Athletic Strong Enough

Author:Kin Hubbard

“The difference between Carter and [Ted] Kennedy: Carter has this vague religion which he believes in strongly, while Kennedy has this strong religion which he believes in vaguely.”

Believe Belief Strong Differences Superstitions Vague Carter Ted Kennedy

Author:Eugene McCarthy

“As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.”

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Author:William Hague

“Strong Reason and good fancy, joyn'd with experience and tryalls, so that we are assured of the good effects of it.”

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Author:Nicholas Hawksmoor

“The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is unlikely the way they're approaching it, they're going to find that enlightenment is very pleasurable.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.”

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Author:William Hague

“We both [with Jo Andres] think that it is really important to our culture that we support all kinds of music, all kinds of theatre and all kinds of art because you never know what moves people. We've always believed that there should be a strong voice outside the commercial world. Certainly, the commercial world has a huge place in our culture and we also support that - but, we also want to support the stuff that lives outside of that.”

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Author:Steve Buscemi

“When I look back at what musical theatre music and show music meant to me, first of all - more than anything - what it meant to me was work. As I was growing up, I realized that singing and performing was my strong suit.”

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Author:Jason Mraz

“The thing about science-fiction fans and "Star Wars" fans is they're very independent-thinking people. They all think outside the box, but they all have very strong ideas about what should happen, and they think it should be their way. Which is fine, except I'm making the movies, so I should have it my way.”

“I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.”

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Author:William Gibson

“I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend to suspect that in real life, there have always been very strong female characters, but at certain stages of society, they've been asked to cool it.”

“When I grew up, it was a time when women were just supposed to be cute and not have many opinions. My mother and her friends were quite different. They were all the most beautiful women you've ever seen ... and they were very strong women.”

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Author:Cher

“We're an elective democracy where science and technology will define where the economically strong countries in the world will be. And science and technological literacy is important for security, as well.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“It's important to keep your creative muscle strong and working. My most inspiring method though is just sitting down with an acoustic guitar and coming up with melodies. It's what I've been doing nice I was nine years old.”

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Author:Zella Day

“People love pitting strong females against each other.”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I was interesting in discovering more about [Elizabeth Taylor], and I always tried to focus more on the woman than the legend or the icon and everybody's own individual version of what that is. She was badass! Really strong. And eccentric and fiery and powerful and clear and blunt. Spoke like a sailor. She was extreme, but she had the ability to love again and again and again and still believe in it every time.”

“You can't just be a wimp and then a year and a half or two years later decide to not be a wimp anymore. Because people will always treat you like a wimp once they have decided that's what you are. You have to be strong and tough and intelligent and smart and kind of plan out what you're going to say and know who you are. So that people will get that right away. Because then they're always going to be great to you. And they're always going to treat you with respect.”

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Author:Stevie Nicks

“I was a gangster when I was young. I had a Robin Hood mentality and tended to always want to support the weak against the strong, but sometimes it was cohesive and I really needed to fall in love with the power of education to find the right venue to express my rage. I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes.”

“It's hard to be strong and be weak at the same time. So I spent a lot of time sitting still. Sitting still for hours, not moving a muscle. Really concentrated work, so I'm ready. I'm ready for my performance.”

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Author:Lady Gaga

“Universities are fantastic places to gain knowledge on a subject, develop a personal network, explore your character and learn new techniques to approach problems. I do however believe that there is a strong argument for students who have an idea they are passionate about to just try and turn it into a reality. I fell into this category and I don't regret not going to University.”

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Author:Richard Branson

“If Black women stand strong and our commitment is to ending domination I know that I'm supporting Black males, Black children male and female Black elderly because the bottom line is the struggle to end domination in all its forms.”

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Author:Bell Hooks

“People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what's not to love [there]?”

People Strong Community Religious Support Senses Mutual Mutual Support

Author:Bill Nye