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"Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity." »John Brown
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"Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon" »George Walker Bush
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"Let us be resolute in prosecuting our ends, and mild in our methods of so doing." »Aquaviva
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"Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment." »Lord Newborough
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"When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword." »Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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"The hammer shatters glass but forges steel." »Assyrian Proverb
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"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters." »Margaret Halsey
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"Liberality attended with mild language; learning without pride; valour united with mercy; wealth accompanied with a generous contempt of it?these four qualities are with difficulty acquired." »The Hitopadesa
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"Yet after brick and steel and stone are gone, and flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on." »Anderson H. Scruggs
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"Who can tell Men?s hearts? The purest comprehend Such contradictions, and can blend The force to bear, the power to feel, The tender bud, the tempered steel." »Hindu Drama
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"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. (On steel industry executives who increased prices)" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time." »Henry David Thoreau
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"On a soft snow, even a sparrow leaves a trace; the important thing is to leave a trace on a steel plate!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth." »Chuck Norris
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"Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf. (to a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band in Wales)" »Prince Phillip
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"Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel." »Andrew Schneider
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"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.)" »John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
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"Never trust anybody who says 'trust me.' Except just this once, of course. - from steel Beach" »John Varley
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