“Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.”
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"Complete Hero" (2009)
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John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic
The Two Paths, (1859).
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Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Fragment quoted in H. Diels and W. Kranz (eds.) Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, Vol. II (1952), no. 294; reference taken from Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations (2005), p. 261
Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999) American violinist and conductor
Source: U S Congress Congressional Record, V. 151, PT. 6, April 21, 2005 to May 5, 2005 http://books.google.co.in/books?id=feq-KS57zeUC&pg=PA7471, Government Printing Office, 2009 , p. 7471
