“ All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit. ”
- Morihei Ueshiba- Copy
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“ I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame. ”
- Anthony Quinn- Copy
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“ Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can. ”
- William Feather- Copy
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“ Haven't played in a game since. These last two seasons have been a bust for me. ”
- John Peel- Copy
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“ Some of the things that I'm trying to do are to strengthen those other forces, and give them a better chance of having some influence. ”
- Peter Singer- Copy
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“ For Louisville basketball, we don't like coming off a Final Four and having a season like this. ”
- Rick Pitino- Copy
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“ I'm here for a friend. I brought a couple of boxes of chocolate Jell-O. ”
- Bill Cosby- Copy
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“ Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame. ”
- Antonia S. Byatt- Copy
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“ Every time the enemy throws us off our guard, and we give way to temptation, he gains so much; he weakens us and strengthens himself; when we resist temptation, it strengthens the Saints and weakens the enemy. ”
- Brigham Young- Copy
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“ Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them. Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them. Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him. Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it. ”
- Pamela Glenconner- Copy
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“ Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge. ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
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“ Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. ”
- Ellen Key- Copy
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“ Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls. ”
- Antoine Rivarol- Copy
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“ Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it. ”
- Walter F. Mondale- Copy
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“ Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick. ”
- Marion Woodman- Copy
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“ Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical. ”
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin- Copy
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“ With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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“ We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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