Famous quotes containing the words strain, due and/or applied:
“The real stumbling-block of totalitarian rĂ©gimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is mens inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.”
—Simone Weil (19091943)
“We praise times past, while we times present use;
Yet due the worship which to each we give.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until youve watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.”
—Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)
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