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Thinking is good, but excessive thinking is not. Between thoughts if there is a period of thoughtlessness, thoughts will be fresh and pathbreaking. A thinker will be able to cultivate a strain of healthy thoughts only when he pays attention to thoughtlessness also.
Thought at Sunrise (2007) -
Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.
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Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
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A difference in taste of jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Daniel Deronda (1876) -
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.
Death on the Nile (1937) -
In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.
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It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
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Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
Dracula -
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
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One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.
Striking Thoughts (2000) -
Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.''
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There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect.
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There is something peculiarly sinister and insidious in even a charge of disloyalty. Such a charge all too frequently places a strain on the reputation of an individual which is indelible and lasting, regardless of the complete innocence later proved.
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There's a pang in all rejoicing, And a joy in the heart of pain; And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some good work.
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What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.
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When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate.
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
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