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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism"

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

Marcus Valerius Martialis
(40 AD - 103 AD)

It may not be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.

Damon Runyon

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing
US abolitionist & clergyman (1780 - 1842)

No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.

Richard Nixon

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

Patricia Neal

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.

Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"

Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.

H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)

A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word "but" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative -- before they tell you.
Thus: "I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... " (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut).

Frank Mankiewicz

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Seneca, Epistles
Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD)

A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt
US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962)

A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Mae West
US movie actress (1892 - 1980)

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)
US science fiction author (1907 - 1988)

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Michel de Montaigne
French essayist (1533 - 1592)

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

Saint Jerome, Letter 48
church father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD)

There is nothing as strong as tenderness,
And nothing as tender as true strength.

Saint Francis de Sales

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