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Quote by Jonathan Swift
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet pe

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. – Jonathan Swift

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Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. – Jonathan Swift

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The type of cuisine I do, especially after being on Iron Chef for several years, is a lot of global cuisine. My strength has always been Mediterranean cuisine across the board from Morocco, Spain, Italy, Greece, France, but I think now Im doing a lot of very different cuisines all the time. – Cat Cora

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Im probably the least flexible athlete youll find. When it comes to yoga, I cant get in the positions and I cant hold them. You have to be pretty flexible to do it. Once you get certain positions, you have to have the core strength to hold those positions. Its a pretty good workout. – Steve Blake

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Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. – Ovid

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I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display. – Anna Quindlen

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After I had the Caesarean, I was told I had really strong stomach muscles and so would heal very quickly. And I did. I was up walking about within three hours. Six days after having her, I was out shopping and shortly after that I made it to David Walliams wedding. – Denise Van Outen

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