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- Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. — Francis Bacon
- The quality of mercy is not strained — William Shakespeare
- One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to… — Arthur Schuster
- To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a… — William James
- There's two or three kids out there trying to make good music, and the rest of them sound like it's been strained… — Merle Haggard
- You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're… — Allen Ginsberg
- I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family… — Gary Cole
- The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape… — Henry James
- The defects born of habit are innumerable. I see every child occupied in some way in disarranging and disfiguring his physique; some… — Jean-Georges Noverre
- I remember, when I have preached at different times in the country, and sometimes here, that my whole soul has agonized over… — Charles Spurgeon
- I strained to remember where I was or even what I was wearing, touching my green corduroy jeans and staring at the… — Maureen Dowd
- There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of… — Brander Matthews