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• To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them above the common level. The man who submits to the shafts of envy for the sake of noble objects pursues a judicious course for his own lasting fame. Hatred dies with its object, while merit soon breaks forth in full splendor, and his glory is handed down to posterity in never-dying strains.

  Tucídides

  Fate, Men, Envy

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• The source of each accordant strain
  Lies deeper than the Poet's brain.
  First from the people's heart must spring
  The passions which he learns to sing;
  They are the wind, the harp is he,
  To voice their fitful melody,--
  The language of their varying fate,
  Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,--
  The talisman which holds inwrought
  The touchstone of the listener's thought;
  That penetrates each vain disguise,
  And brings his secret to his eyes.

  Bayard Taylor

  Lying, Hate, Spring

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.111

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• Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential.

  Emily Post

  Golf, Average, Games

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.527, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Reservo mi mayor admiración para quienes siguen luchando por abrazar toda la maraña imposible de serpientes que es nuestra sociedad; quienes luchan por identificar y fortalecer las conexiones humanas, y derrotar a las fuerzas polarizadoras que se esfuerzan por separarnos.

  Shana Alexander

  Struggle, Fighting, Snakes

  Shana Alexander (1976). "Mujer que habla"

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• Se afirma que los Estados Unidos obtienen el té más limpio y puro del mercado, y ciertamente es demasiado bueno para justificar la aprensión nerviosa que lo cuela y diluye hasta la nada. Los ingleses no cuelan su té con el mismo fervor que nosotros. Les gusta ver unas cuantas hojas vagando por la taza. Les gusta saber lo que están bebiendo.

  Agnes Repplier

  Moda, Beber, Té

  Agnes Repplier (1932). "¡Pensar en el té!"

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• I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Giving, World

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• I think 3D at 24 frames is interesting, but it's the 48 that actually allows 3D to achieve the potential that it can achieve, because it's less eye strain and you have a sharper picture which creates more of a 3-dimensional world.

  Peter Jackson

  Eye, Thinking, Interesting

  "Peter Jackson Talks THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, Coming on When Guillermo del Toro Left, and Post-Converting LORD OF THE RINGS to 3D". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 14, 2012.

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• Proporciona un tipo diferente de elemento y tensión mental que encanta a los atletas. Eso es lo que hace que el juego del golf sea tan especial.

  Tiger Woods

  Atleta, Golf, Juegos

  Entrevista con Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. 13 de octubre de 2006.

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• Any strain upon a girl's intellect is to be dreaded, and any attempt to bring women into competition with men can scarcely escapefailure.

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell

  Girl, Men, Competition

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1866). “Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes”, p.451

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• I endeavor not to conceal that I believe there is a great mixture of desire in the passion which is called love--or rather, without any far-fetched strain on words, it may be called the companion of love.

  Sarah Fielding

  Love, Believe, Passion

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• We strain to listen to the ghosts and echoes of our inexpressibly wise past, and we have an obligation to maintain these places, to provide these sanctuaries, so that people may be in the presence of forces larger than those of the moment.

  Ken Burns

  Wise, Past, Echoes

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• How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless. It will not be dissected, nor unraveled, nor shown.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Sleep, Incense

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• Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare gift: something truly new. Notable American Women contains strains of Donald Antrim and Samuel Beckett but is beholden to neither; it is a brave, original book.

  Myla Goldberg

  Book, Brave, Portraits

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• Catholicism is the big house of Christianity. It's got many, many rooms in it. And I've always been attracted to the rooms which are to do with prayer. The mystical strain is the strain whereby the whole day can be given over to prayer through what we call lectio divina, prayerful reading of Scripture, through practice of meditation of when one uses the imagination and the intellect with respect to images, and then finally, and most difficult of all, contemplation, where one empties the mind of all images and all ideas, all concepts, in order to be completely attentive to God.

  Kevin Hart

  Prayer, Reading, Order

  "La poesía y las oraciones de Kevin Hart". "Encuentro" con Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. 5 de junio de 2011.

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• I have always preferred to liken the championship to a marathon. You have to know how to start the race, how to take the strain when problems come along and to make sure you don't give any potentially dangerous rivals an advantage. My policy is to ideally have five or six men around the age of 26, a couple of youngsters, a couple round the 28 mark and one or two in their 30s. But the nucleus of the team should be experienced and not too old.

  Bob Paisley

  Soccer, Couple, Team

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• With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is our fault. But we didn't kill Russian civilians by shooting down a civilian airplane. We didn't attempt to conquer an adjacent country to ours. We didn't walk out on negotiations and refuse to give a date for when we would resume.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, War, Airplane

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• Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  War, Remembered

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• As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.

  Edward Thomson

  Bible, Philosophy, Zion

  Edward Thomson (1856). “Essays, moral and religious”, p.35

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• I have a couple of best friends, and I don't think I would live with them. It definitely... certain people can't live together, and I think that it could potentially put a lot of strain on the relationship or friendship.

  Alexandra Chando

  Couple, Thinking, People

  "Talent and The Lying Game Star Alexandra Chando Admits She Totally Watches Gossip Girl and Vampire Diaries". Interview with Haley Longman, www.teen.com. April 29, 2011.

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• Me gusta la iglesia, me gusta una capucha,
  me gusta un profeta del alma;
  Y en mi corazón pasillos monásticos
  Caen como dulces acordes o sonrisas pensativas;
  Sin embargo, no por toda su fe puede ver,
  sería yo ese eclesiástico encapuchado.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Fall, Heart

  'The Problem' (1847)

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• Bellas son las flores y los niños, pero más bella es su sutil sugerencia;
  Más raro es el estallido de rosa del amanecer, pero más raro es el secreto que lo encierra;
  Dulce es el júbilo de la canción, pero más dulce es la melodía que la precede.
  Y nunca se escribió un poema, pero el significado superó a la métrica.

  Richard Realf

  Belleza, Canción, Dulce

  Richard Realf, Richard Josiah Hinton (1893). "Poemas"

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• Y cuando una humedad cayó alrededor del camino de Milton, en su mano la cosa se convirtió en una trompeta; de donde sopló acordes que animaban el alma, ¡ay! demasiado pocos.

  William Wordsworth

  Manos, Alma, Camino

  William Wordsworth (1847). "Los poemas de William Wordsworth", p.203

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• La migración prematura de un gran número de personas de las zonas rurales a las urbanas puede generar muchas tensiones en la infraestructura urbana, lo que también puede crear problemas de delincuencia, problemas de orden público.

  Manmohan Singh

  Numbers, Order, Law

  "Entrevista del primer ministro con McKinsey Quarterly". Entrevista con Rajat K. Gupta, archivepmo.nic.in. 2005.

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• The Andromeda strain is a killer disease that they've got to prevent from spreading to being 100 percent contagious. It's another one where we're racing to save humanity.

  Eric McCormack

  Humanity, Racing, Disease

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more examples to which one could point, and there were at last some activist photographers who understood that getting information into the public sphere in spite of military censorship was a right and obligation within democracy. That strain in war journalism did nearly vanish during that time.

  Judith Butler

  Militar, Guerra, Media

  Entrevista con Cihan Aksan y Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. 11 de octubre de 2013.

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