Quotes with strong-willed

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  • Carol Loomis The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of them with strong reservations about the whole concept. For the first time in their relatively short history, the funds are not growing: in fact, some have suffered large withdrawals of capital, and a few have actually folded.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Barry Marshall The 20th-century ulcer epidemic was a sign of good health in American people - good diet, strong acidity and healthy immune response actually make ulcers more likely. That's why businessmen eating giant T-bone steaks were prone to ulcers.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • John Ruskin The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Carson Grant The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within.
    Kaminsky, Denise, Aug 2006, Carson Grant: Actor/Artist- A Lifetime of Art, Denises Interviews and Media News, p.1
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  • Walter Bagehot The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Jim Rohn The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Joyce Meyer The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.
    Joyce Meyer
    American Christian author and speaker (1943 - )
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  • Ann Veneman The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Alva Myrdal The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Andrew Jackson The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Emma Goldman The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Oscar Wilde The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
    A Woman of No Importance Act 3
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ben Shapiro The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Susan Sontag The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • William Bolitho The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.
    William Bolitho
    South African journalist, writer and biographer
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis The mind as well as the body must be not only strong but well disciplined in order to act with promptness and vigor in new and untried situations. It is hard to turn men's minds from the old and deeply worn channels in which they have long been flowing.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Albert Einstein The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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