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Hardening of the categories causes art disease. -- W. Eugene Smith
Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive. -- Jo Coudert
The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men. -- John Owen
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. -- James Thurber
I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available. -- Layne Staley
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. -- Edith Wharton
In soap, fatty acids made from boiling pork bone fat are used as a hardening agent, but also for giving it a pearl-like effect. -- Christien Meindertsma
In 1967, I found out I was losing my hearing. I went 10 years without any help. I had otosclerosis - hardening of the bone in the middle of the ear. -- Frankie Valli
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. -- Ellen Key
There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre. -- Nancy Meyers
Humor prevents a hardening of the attitudes. -- Joel Goodman
What we call "willing" is often but an inflation of ourselves, attended by a hardening. -- Nilakanta Sri Ram
The hardening of the attitudes is the most deadly disease on the face of the earth. -- Zig Ziglar
Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise. -- Winston Churchill
Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading. -- Ashley Montagu
Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end. -- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer's. -- Robyn Carr
We all need a daily checkup from the neck up to avoid stinkin' thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes. -- Zig Ziglar
There can certainly be a softening. I have heard people say it is a hardening, actually.We`re going to have a deportation force. -- Donald Trump
Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening. -- James A. Garfield
For a Christian to defy adversities is to "despise" chastisement. Instead of hardening himself to endure stoically, there should be a melting of the heart. -- Arthur W. Pink
Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them. -- John Haines
Speaking of our unkind labeling of each other with, "she is divorced, she used to be inactive, etc", asked, "Can't we get over this hardening of the categories?". -- Sheri L. Dew
When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and the death of the republic is at hand. -- William Randolph Hearst
A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart. -- Vance Havner
Children keep us in check. Their laughter prevents our hearts from hardening. Their dreams ensure we never lose our drive to make ours a better world. They are the greatest disciplinarians known to mankind. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant capitalism, in slowing down and indeed preventing its transformation into industrial capitalism. -- Paul A. Baran
At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding. -- Mary Wollstonecraft

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