Karen Russell
Author
"It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity."
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Fierce
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Natalie Grant
Singer, Songwriter
"You are never too young to be fierce and brave in your faith!"
Bell Hooks
Author, Feminist, Social Activist
"The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution."
Jack Kerouac
Novelist, Poet
"Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become."
Gilbert Parker
Author, Politician
"She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good."
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"I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things."
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"Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness."
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"My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual."
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"...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known."
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"It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral."
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"I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others."
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"One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman."
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"In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light."
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"The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners."
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"No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast."
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"He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad."
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"The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies."
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"I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself."
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"The lion is not so fierce as they paint him."
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"If there's a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we will not try to keep cutting the budget so that we keep worsening a severe recession."
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"I have a fierce desire to paint colour."
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"There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object."
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"I was born with a fierce need for independence."
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"What's the weather like? ... It's fierce mild!"
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"Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much."
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