Necessity is stronger far than art.


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Love is stronger than hate.
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Nothing is stronger than habit.
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The ballot is stronger than bullets.
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Right reason is stronger than force.
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Common aim is stronger than blood.
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A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
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A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
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A concept is stronger than a fact.
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A concept is stronger than a fact.
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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
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Faith is stronger than so-called reason.
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None of the competitors is stronger than him.
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No brain is stronger than its weakest think.
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Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.
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Faithfulness lives where love is stronger than instinct.
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Nothing is stronger than habit. [Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]
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One who smiles rather than angers is always stronger.
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Ask the gods nothing excessive.
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Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.
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Every medicine is vain.
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