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Iron

652 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck Statesman, Chancellor

"The position of Prussia in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power ... Prussia must concentrate its strength and hold it for the favorable moment, which has already come and gone several times. Since the treaties of Vienna, our frontiers have been ill-designed for a healthy body politic. Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided - that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849 - but by iron and blood (Eisen und Blut)."

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Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist

"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
Iron

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

War History Iron
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Military Leader, Politician
Iron

"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard."

Military Trouble Iron
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George Lincoln Rockwell Political Activist
Iron

"We are the new "barbarians", forged in iron hardness in the fires of their hate and persecution. All over the world, we wait to pounce."

Hate Fire Iron
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
Iron

"Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience."

Writing Creativity Iron
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Bruce Dickinson Musician, Author, Pilot
Iron

"We're better than Metallica. We're better musicians, better players. Put it this way, they can try to walk onstage after an Iron Maiden show if they want."

Trying Player Iron
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Joseph Stalin Politician, Revolutionary
Iron

"Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron."

Different Water Iron
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Hippocrates Physician
Iron

"Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable."

Fire Medicine Iron
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Frederick Douglass Social Reformer, Writer
Iron

"No people to whom liberty is given can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant."

Hands Iron Tyrants
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Thomas Wolfe Novelist
Iron

"My dear, dear girl [. . .] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot, our bodies young. We are a flash of fire--a brain, a heart, a spirit. And we are three-cents-worth of lime and iron--which we cannot get back."

Heart Girl Iron
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