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“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.” Jack London, “White Fang” - 1906

“The people who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.” Anatole France, “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard” - 1881

“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.” Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” - 1984

“Union is strength.” Aesop, “Aesop's Fables”

“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.” Woodrow Wilson, “The New Freedom” - 1913

“Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.” Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick” - 1851

“Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.” H. G. Wells, “The Time Machine” - 1895

“But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.” Theodore Roosevelt, “Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography” - 1913

“If one's strong one loves only the more strongly.” Henry James, “The Portrait of a Lady” - 1881

“The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract” - 1762

“For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.” Barack Obama, “Inaugural Address” - 20 January 2009

“Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.” Sun Tzu, “The Art of War” - 5th century BC

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching” - 4th century BC

“It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies; yet our present numbers are sufficient to repel the force of all the world.” Thomas Paine, “Common Sense” - 1776

“Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.” Samuel Johnson, “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia” - 1759

“Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.” Henry Kissinger, “Diplomacy” - 1994

“I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.” Andy Warhol, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol” - 1975

“A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.” Marilyn Monroe, “My Story” - 1974

“O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.” William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure” - 1623

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.” William Shakespeare, “Troilus and Cressida” - 1609

“It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; but vows to every purpose must not hold.” William Shakespeare, “Troilus and Cressida” - 1609

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

“For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

“Let us then declare that King Arthur and his noble knights, guarding the Sacred Flame of Christianity and the theme of a world order, sustained by valour, physical strength, and good horses and armour, slaughtered innumerable hosts of foul...” Winston Churchill, “A History of the English-Speaking Peoples” - 1956

“All through my life I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.” Muhammad Ali, “The Soul of a Butterfly” - 2004

“When the flight attendant asked me to put it on, I told her that Superman didn't need a seat belt.” Muhammad Ali, “The Soul of a Butterfly” - 2004

“Even Samson, the world's strongest man, was destroyed by the woman who slept in his arms. She was the one whose words hurt him.” Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” - 1965

“It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.” Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” - 1899

“They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force—nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.” Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” - 1899

“You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernal, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart one day, and then the rough burr will fall off.” Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women” - 1868

“And how are the other weak ones to blame, because they could not endure what the strong have endured?” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov” - 1880

“God gave the day, God gave the strength. And the day and the strength were consecrated to labor, and that labor was its own reward.” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“It is the sole source of everything of our strength, happiness, and misery. All the knowledge I possess every one else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “The Sorrows of Young Werther” - 1774

“No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. All the dogmatic stations in life have the effect of fixing a certain stiffness of attitude forever, as though they mesmerized the...” Henry Adams, “The Education of Henry Adams” - 1906

“Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.” Francis Bacon, “The Essays of Francis Bacon” - 1597

“For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation.” Ulysses S. Grant, “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant” - 1885

“Be as a tower, that, firmly set, Shakes not its top for any blast that blows!” Dante Alighieri, “Divine Comedy” - 1320

“His straight and perfect figure, muscled as the best of the ancient Roman gladiators must have been muscled, and yet with the soft and sinuous curves of a Greek god, told at a glance the wondrous combination of enormous strength with suppleness...” Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes” - 1912

“We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now, that our spirit is stronger, and cannot be broken.” Barack Obama, “Inaugural Address” - 20 January 2009

“When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.” Sun Tzu, “The Art of War” - 5th century BC

“But our strategy for peace with freedom must also be based on strength—economic strength and military strength.” Ronald Reagan, “State of the Union Address” - 25 January 1983

“I never felt that I was good enough, strong enough, smart enough. He let me know that there was always room for improvement. A lot of sons would have been crippled by his demands, but instead the discipline rubbed off on me. I turned it into drive.” Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story” - 2012

“Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance; yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness.” Samuel Johnson, “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia” - 1759

“Valour is stability, not of legs and arms, but of the courage and the soul; it does not lie in the goodness of our horse or our arms but in our own.” Michel de Montaigne, “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne” - 1580

“My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit” - 1937

“This was no time to go wobbly.” Margaret Thatcher, “The Downing Street Years” - 1993

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