Iron is full of impurities that weaken it: through forging, it becomes steel and is transformed into a razor-sharp sword. Human beings develop in the same fashion.
Morihei Ueshiba
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10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER The mind is like a razor; it only works when sharp. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT The values of the Left cripple human beings, weaken cities, make it difficult for us to in fact surv... NEWT GINGRICH Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magn... 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FRANZ KAFKA Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different... YASUNARI KAWABATA He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. BIBLE The sharp rise in wages is a two-sided sword. JOEL NAROFF You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can m... GUY DE MAUPASSANT I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa... ERIK GRIFFIN It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent... TERENCE MCKENNA These pressures have flowed through Asia and into our domestic markets. This is not a global steel d... KIRBY ADAMS He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset. But what does someone who hates and love... ALBERTO CAEIRO The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitatin... THEODOR ADORNO it's always important to do what you want, Life is too short to live with Regrets. SHELLI THOMPSON I'm not an Emontional, but how??? I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has... DEYTH BANGER In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of i... PRIMO LEVI We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make... LAKSHMI MITTAL We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make... LAKSHMI MITTAL I can be kind of razor sharp in my disapproval. JANE LYNCH When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani... DAVE GROHL The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. TERRY PRATCHETT The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp TERRY PRATCHETT The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Thro... SUZANNE COLLINS It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. MARY DALY It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God MARY DALY An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by ... PABLO PICASSO As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth hi... THOMAS KEMPIS It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identificat... ROLLO MAY Human nature was structured through the eons. What our environment of persistent scarcity has d... HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN It seems to me curious, not to say obscene and thoroughly terrifying, that it could occur to an asso... JAMES AGEE The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword. JOYCE MEYER Carbon is the basis of human life and iron of robot life. It becomes easy to speak of C/Fe when you ... ISAAC ASIMOV 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON If I knew I was going to die tomorrow, And Spring came the day after tomorrow, I would die... ALBERTO CAEIRO The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is... DREW BREES Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field There passes for a moment the fig... ALBERTO CAEIRO It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soul But it’s not the ... ALBERTO CAEIRO Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence me... ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be... RENEE JAMES The energy alliance Germany is forging with Russia has the same philosophy behind it. To find a way ... ALEXANDER RAHR Why are you suggesting something… then deny to tell the whole thing? DEYTH BANGER Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innoce... JOHN O. BRENNAN The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. BIBLE A lot of people say there's a fine line between genius and insanity. I don't think there's a fine li... BILL BAILEY I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want... CASSANDRA CLARE The Queen gave him a look: special and secretive and shared between the two of them.You warned he... CASSANDRA CLARE It is because baptism is a real insertion of human beings into the ascended manhood of Christ that t... E.L. MASCALL To find that things are never what they seem no matter what way you look at it is an eye opener inde... GARY F EVANS... It is a very, very dangerous and lethal virus in human beings. MIKE RYAN Mimicking the intricacies of the human brain, a neuro-inspired computer would work in a fashion simi... NAYEF AL-RODHAN Without music, life is a journey through a desert. PAT CONROY This is not because IRS employees are bad human beings or lazy human beings or stupid human beings; ... NEWT GINGRICH Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly. GINA GREENLEE Even so, I’m somebody. I’m the Discoverer of Nature. I’m the Argonaut of true sensat... ALBERTO CAEIRO What comes, when it comes, will be what it is. ALBERTO CAEIRO Night doesn’t fall for my eyes But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes. Be... ALBERTO CAEIRO I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they... ALBERTO CAEIRO I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by ac... ROBERT REDFORD It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made... CALVIN JOHNSON We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosm... ARTHUR PEACOCKE His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberatio... ANTHONY DE MELLO If the negotiation drags on or even lead to trade disputes between China and iron ore exporting coun... FENG ZHANG I speak the truth. 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