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“It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.”
Source : "Alex Karras obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012. 
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“Women are never so strong as after their defeat.”
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“My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.”
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“I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.”
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“The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.”
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“The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.”
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“Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.”
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“It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.”
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“Insanity is a lack of proportion.”
Source : Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.62, Atlantic Monthly Press
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“The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.”
Source : Claude Adrien Helvétius (1807). “De l'esprit; or, Essays on the mind. Transl. To Which are now prefixed, a life of the author and prefatory strictures by W. Mudford”, p.24
