Quotes with strain

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• Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

  T. S. Eliot
  British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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• The real stumbling-block of totalitarian régimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

  Simone Weil
  French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• stumbling-block
• totalitarian
• excitement
• inability
• permanent
• nervous

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