"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
-George Eliot
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"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.“
-George Eliot
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-George Eliot
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"I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men."
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"I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me."
-Susan Smith
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"I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength."
-Dennis Nilsen
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"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."
-Adolf Hitler
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"Strength lies not in defence but in attack."
-Adolf Hitler
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"The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people."
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"Strength is a matter of the made-up mind."
-John Beecher
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