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Letter "S" » strains
«A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.»
«Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way»
«It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.»
«Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.»
Author: Richard Buckminster Fuller
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«That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«Such strains as would have won the ear / Of Pluto, to have quite set free / His half-regained Eurydice.»
«The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.»
Author: Margaret Mead
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«Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.»
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
(Clergyman, Writer)
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«Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art»
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