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There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many violent mutant strains. — Salman Rushdie
Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or excitement must be… — Charles Spurgeon
People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of… — Ilka Chase
The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine… — Origen
He strains his conversation through a cigar. — Hamilton Wright Mabie
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls. — Bertolt Brecht
Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with. — Patricia Arquette
Like the Puritans, live in terms of the settled judgement that the joy of heaven will make amends of any losses and crosses, strains and… — Joel Beeke
Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or… — Joe Scarborough
My life certainly hasn't been ordinary: different is the word. It hasn't always been stable - except in the important things which are love and… — River Phoenix
There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of… — Justus von Liebig
The devil strains every nerve to secure the souls which belong to Christ. We should not grudge our toil in wresting them from Satan and… — Unknown Author
Canada's eminent position today is a tribute to the patience, tolerance, and strength of character of her people, of both French and British strains. For… — Harry S. Truman
No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting… — Samuel Johnson
Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the… — Henry Ward Beecher
Calm on the listening ear of night Come Heaven's melodious strains, Where wild Judea stretches far Her silver-mantled plains. — Unknown Author
He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved that it looks like black… — Peter HÃ¸eg
At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof of conscious intelligenceHe… — Maria Montessori
We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but… — Francis Galton
Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most… — Germaine Greer
And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains,-alas! too few. — William Wordsworth
I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death. — John Milton
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry… — John Ruskin
The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That’s the way a… — Anna Kamienska
Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in… — Oswald Chambers

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