"Trouble is to man what rust is to…" — Yiddish Proverb

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• A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in… — Aristotle
• I want to be America's Margaret Thatcher. I will be the next Iron Lady. — Michele Bachmann
• I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the… — Mario Batali
• The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds… — Henry Ward Beecher
• The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron… — Otto von Bismarck
• To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out. — Jeff Bridges
• No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or… — Thomas Carlyle
• From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. — Winston Churchill
• Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron… — Henri Frederic Amiel
• Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. — Antisthenes
• The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment… — Kenneth E. Boulding

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