"Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime."
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"The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive."
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"Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death."
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"The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole."
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"Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy."
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"I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree."
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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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"Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail."
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"All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that's something you never think about."
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"I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival."
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"He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both."
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"The only thing that kept me going was stories. Stories are hope. They take you out of yourself for a bit, and when you get dropped back in, you're different- you're stronger, you've seen more, you've felt more. Stories are like spiritual currency."
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"That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt."
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"Something aches at the very core of me, something ancient and deep and stronger than words: the filament that joins each of us to the root of existence, that ancient thing unfurling and resisting and grappling, desperately, for a foothold, a way to stay here, breathe, keep going."
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"At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me."
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"Hatred is stronger than friendship."
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"The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone."
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"If I have some extra words and I'm trying to make it fit into that shape, then I just sort of take out the extra words, almost like a sculptor would take a piece of granite. It's almost like cutting out the words that aren't needed in order to make it a stronger poem and still say exactly what I want it to say."
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"It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would grow stronger because there is something horrifying in it."
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"You never know how bad a situation is going to be until you come out of it. But the nation has had two major hurricanes in [several] weeks, and we will be stronger because of it."
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