"Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine."
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"The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing from the Bessemer converter."
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"There are words which cut like steel."
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"Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit."
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"I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out."
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"She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone -- She never deemed -- she hurt -- That -- is not Steel's Affair -- A vulgar grimace in the Flesh -- How ill the Creatures bear -- To Ache is human -- not polite -- The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom -- Just locking up -- to Die."
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"So I bought a forty-four magnum, it was solid steel cast, and in the blessed name of Elvis, well I just let it blast 'til my TV lay in pieces."
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"I'm not a fan of chrome wheels. I sort of like brushed, brushed steel, more European style."
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"Steel is prince or pauper."
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"Steel True, Blade Straight."
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"Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All many be well."
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"If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dreams, where immobile steel rims crack and the ditch in the back roads stop. Could you find me?"
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"Like a tongue on frozen steel, like flesh in flame —"
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"The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel."
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"Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in."
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"Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady."
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"The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]"
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"He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death."
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"If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which is typical of moviemaking. And then you get back to your normal life and you have to have nerves of steel."
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"It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel."
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