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Mao Zedong Politician, Revolutionary
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"The most important thing is to be strong. With strength, one can conquer others, and to conquer others gives one virtue."

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Isabel Allende Novelist
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"I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward."

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"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment."

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Nikos Kazantzakis Novelist, Playwright
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"Every obstacle in his journey became a milestone, an occasion for further triumph. We have a model in front of us now, a model who blazes our trail and gives us strength."

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Franz Kafka Writer
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"The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving."

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Jane Goodall Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist
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"I just have this absolute belief that humans are moving away from cruelty and destruction towards a time when we can truly live in harmony with nature. When we understand that there is a spiritual power around us from which we can draw strength. That is where I believe human destiny ultimately is taking us. I just hope we have time."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken."

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Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman
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"Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less."

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