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If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
Seamus Heaney / Poet
Art
Ifs
Inner Life
Anything
Life Poetry Your
Arts
Fortify
Inner
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You need to take care of you and fortify yourself and then move out to take care of others.
India Arie /
Take Care
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Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.
Frans De Waal / Primatologist
May
Morality
Fortify
Origin
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Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.
Maya Soetoro-Ng / Teacher
Government
Country
Order
Fortify
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
Walter Lippmann / Writer
Men
Consciousness
Purpose
Soul
Worthy
Compose
Fortify
Mightier
Souls
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The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
Sydney Smith / Scientist
Intellect
Mankind
Preaching
Constantly
Forgetting
Fortify
Object
Remind
Resolutions
Supply
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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
Ramakrishna /
Knowledge
Firsts
Midst
Self
True Knowledge
Way
Wealth
Affect
Fortify
Surely
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We have to protect and do our utmost to fortify the walls of Judaism in the land of Israel through legislation that will guard the unique Jewish character of the state of Israel.
Eli Yishai /
Judaism
Legislation
Protect
Unique
Jewish
Fortify
Guard
Utmost
Walls
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If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.
Zaha Hadid / Architect
Position
Accessible
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Spaces
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Ultimately, a director is a storyteller. I wanted to fortify that part of my life as a director, so I thought the best way to do that is to study and learn about the greatest stories ever written.
Fred Savage / Actor
Best Way
Life Best My Life
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By themselves, genetically engineered crops will not end hunger or improve health or bolster the economies of struggling countries. They won't save the sight of millions or fortify their bones. But they will certainly help.
Michael Specter / Journalist
Crops
Hunger
Sight
Bolster
Engineered
Economies
Fortify
Genetically
Improve
Struggling
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Taiwan needs to start looking at some asymmetric and anti-access area denial strategies and really fortify itself in a manner that would deter the Chinese from any sort of amphibious invasion or even a gray zone operation against them.
Robert C. O'brien /
Denial
Invasion
Taiwan
Zone
Deter
Fortify
Manner
Operation
Strategies
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I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.
Jon Huntsman, Jr. / Former Governor Of Utah
Budgets
Healthcare
Stimulus
Allow
Ensure
For Example
Fortify
Recover
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To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.
F. Sionil José / Writer
Beer
Entertainment
Fund
Patronage
Rely
Cultural
Efforts
Fortify
Identify
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Why can't we have a concert with food? Your typical cooking demonstration, there's just no enthusiasm. There's no energy behind it. I said, 'What if we take a cooking demonstration and fortify it with a lot of good music? ... Drive it to the next level?'
Guy Fieri / Television Personality
Cooking
Demonstration
Enthusiasm
Next Level
Typical
What If
Concert
Good Music Food
Good Music
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Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.
Bennie Thompson / U.s. Representative
Education
Quality
Add
Assistance
Defense
Drug
Program
Public Education
Rural Areas
Shore
Social Security
Surplus
Tax Breaks
Tax
Area
Benefit
Breaks
Fortify
Prescription
Provide
Rural
Squander
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We need to look at how we can better fortify our force protection at military installations. But also, how can we deal with these mental health issues with our returning veterans? And our suicide rate in the military is twice as high as the average population.
Michael Mccaul / U.s. Representative
Average
Mental Health
Population
Protection
Rate
Twice
Fortify
Returning
Veterans
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An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.
Glenn Greenwald / Journalist
Behavior
Cheat
Class
Degrade
Law
Limits
Plunder
Rule Of Law
Act
Elite
Endlessly
Fortify
Harmed
Imposed
Operate
Responses
Rule
Whether
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It can be easy and tempting, especially during a presidential campaign, to listen only to opinions that mirror and fortify one's own. That's not ideal, because it eliminates learning and makes it impossible for people to understand what they dismiss as 'the other side.'
Cass Sunstein / Legal Scholar
Presidential
Presidential Campaign
Tempting
Campaign
Dismiss
Fortify
Ideal
Opinions
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Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.
Judith Butler / Philosopher
Failure
Constitutional Rights
Democratic
Guantanamo
Instance
International
International Relations
Links
Opening
Pursued
Rhetoric
Rights
Way
Obama
Useful
Close
Constitutional
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Link
Markets
Proved
Relations
Ways
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I tried to fortify myself with the best nonfiction and fiction I could lay my hands on, from the essays of James Baldwin and Joan Didion, to the stories and novels of Ralph Ellison, Roberto Bolano and Celine. Distinctive voices like these were a source of constant nourishment on all range of matters, from punctuation to philosophy.
Thomas Chatterton Williams /
Constant
Distinctive
Essays
Nonfiction
Nourishment
Punctuation
Range
Stories
Matters
Fortify
James
Joan
Lay
Ralph
Roberto
Tried
Voices
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A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.
Apollonius Of Tyana / Philosopher
Anger
Wise
Combination
Greed
Impulse
Laziness
Vices
Pardoned
Fortify
Odious
Prompted
Render
Wise Man
Yields
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