Severe Quotes
434 quotes by 378 authors
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Each one of us starts Karate with some particular reason: to be a good fighter, to keep in good shape, to protect oneself. I wanted…
— Tsutomu Ohshima
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Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather…
— Francis Quarles
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So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.
— Tom Lantos
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Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are still more harmful…
— Jonathan Kozol
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My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a…
— Zhu Rongji
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We think of cannabis as a drug, in accordance with international opinions. This means that even consuming small amounts can lead to very severe dependence.…
— Angela Merkel
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What I have been trying to remind people of for the past 40 years is that you can’t operate an entire conventional system, whether it’s…
— Prince Charles
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The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World…
— Naoto Kan
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Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep…
— Phillis Wheatley
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We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those…
— Albert Einstein
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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In view of the epidemiological situation in Germany, the lack of evidence for the effectiveness of the BCG-vaccine and the not uncommen severe, undesired side-effects…
— Robert Koch
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There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer,
— S. S. Van Dine
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The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is second nature in…
— Alexander Lowen
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The Duke of Buckingham gave me once a short but severe character of the two brothers. It was the more severe, because it was true:…
— Gilbert Burnet
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The great soul of power extends far beyond states, to every domain of life, from families to international affairs. And throughout, every form of authority…
— Noam Chomsky
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Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.
— Carl Levin
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On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and…
— Terry Brooks
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