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Tag Name "Fierce" (384)

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There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
David Whyte
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Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel of memory through which fierce and unrequited longings surge, longings that define and shape a whole life.
Michael Ignatieff
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
William James
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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Francis Bacon
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If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?
Saint Augustine
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Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
Walter Savage Landor
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
Walter Savage Landor
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If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.
David Knopfler
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Nothing shocks me anymore. I've embraced men in thongs, I've embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying 'fierce.'
Johnny Weir
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All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance they see each other, and are attached to each other by the features of their faces they illuminate each other by the fierce preference which is akin to madness they assert the reality of illusions and for a moment they change falsehood into truth.
Henri Barbusse
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Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat.
Sun Tzu
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Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that furnace he would fight his way out into the serenity of middle age,-all the richer and more human for having known this great passion.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
Felix Adler
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Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.
Chogyam Trungpa
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The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These storms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them.
Susan B. Anthony
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Though she be but little, she is fierce!
William Shakespeare
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There's always another storm. It's the way the world works. Snowstorms, rainstorms, windstorms, sandstorms, and firestorms. Some are fierce and others are small. You have to deal with each one separately, but you need to keep an eye on whats brewing for tomorrow.
Maria V. Snyder
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Russia's now in the middle of a fierce confrontation with Turkey. And that's one of France's NATO allies.
Corey Flintoff
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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
Voltaire
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I held her tighter, just because I could. Because she was fierce, and beautiful, and mind.
Rachel Vincent
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I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.
Annie Dillard
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There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.
Bob Schieffer
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So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble and here also we find the wild pig.
John Hanning Speke
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