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Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
(Samuel Butler (1835-1902), British author. Samuel Butler's Notebooks, p. 197 (1951).)
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My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure.
(Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), British poet. Sir Galahad, st. 1 (1842).)
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blind skyscrapers use
Their full height to proclaim
The strength of Collective Man,
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. September 1, 1939 (l. 35-37). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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His strength is so tender, his wildness so meek,
(James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), U.S. poet. A Fable for Critics. . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.
(John Dos Passos (1896-1970), U.S. novelist, poet, playwright, painter. Produced by the New Playwrights Theatre in New York in the spring of 1929. Strikers in Airways, Inc. Act 2, Three Plays, Harcourt, Brace and Company (1934).)
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Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.
(Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. Poems (1835).)
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Women will not advance except by joining together in cooperative action.... Unlike other groups, women do not need to set affiliation and strength in opposition one against the other. We can readily integrate the two, search for more and better ways to use affiliation to enhance strength—and strength to enhance affiliation.
(Jean Baker Miller (20th century), U.S. psychiatrist. Toward a New Psychology of Women, ch. 8 (1976).)
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To ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a will to dominate, a will to subjugate, a will to become master, a thirst for enemies and obstacles and triumphant celebrations, is just as absurd as to ask weakness to express itself as strength.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sδmtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 5, p. 279, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). On the Genealogy of Morals, "First Essay," section 13 (1887).)
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