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The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a negative point of view, intolerable. What the foreigner finds most objectionable in American life is its lack of basic comfort. No nation with any sense of material well-being would endure the food we eat, the cramped apartments we live in, the noise, the traffic, the crowded subways and buses. American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.

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The strongest armor one can wear is integrity.

– Aloo Denish ObieroRate it:

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

– Emma GoldmanRate it:

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

– Jean Jacques RousseauRate it:

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.

– Henrik IbsenRate it:

The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.

– Thomas HuxleyRate it:

The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience.

– Leo TolstoyRate it:

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

– Edwina CurrieRate it:

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

– George EliotRate it:

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

– George EliotRate it:

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

– Thomas JeffersonRate it:

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

– Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196Rate it:

The struggle for peace does not begin on the battlefield but within one's own mind.

– Andreas SimicRate it:

The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and... the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression and obedience.

– Justice William O. DouglasRate it:

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

– Italo CalvinoRate it:

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

– Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and ForgettingRate it:

The stubborn will is the propelling force necessary for climbing the ladder of success.

– Prof.Salam Al ShereidaRate it:

The student must be allowed to develop his thinking ability and creativity, instead of repressing them from an early age.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.

– Richard Milhous NixonRate it:

The student will always outshine the teacher at the end of the journey. Therefore, outshining the master.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

The study is an inaccurate part of knowledge; whereas, experience is accurate and authentic knowledge.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

The study is just knowledge of theory; whereas, practice shows its substance and reality.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

The study of great quotations is worth more than a college education.

– Vikrant ParsaiRate it:

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.

– Jean BodinRate it:

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