Ingrid Newkirk

Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

British Activist

Dustin Poirier

Seven years is a long time, and seven years of fighting the best guys in the best organization in the world, the biggest organization in the world, it hardens you. You don't stay seven years without evolving. It doesn't happen.

American Athlete

Dolly Parton

When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

American Singer

Maya Angelou

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

American Poet

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

English Politician

Charles Dickens

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

English Novelist

Wayne LaPierre

Evil walks among us, and God help us if we don't harden our schools and protect our kids.

American Activist

Antoine Rivarol

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

French Journalist

George Sand

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

French Novelist

Theodore Parker

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

American Theologian

Used to describe a visible change from soft or liquid to solid.

Physical Change

Sometimes used to talk about ideas or feelings taking a fixed form.

Metaphorical Use

Describes a process that happens over time, not instantly.

Gradual Process

Refers to emotional resistance or insensitivity developing within a person.

Emotional State

Can describe someone becoming more determined in their opinions or actions.

Resolve Strengthening

Sometimes implies becoming less empathetic or more difficult to deal with.

Negative Connotation

In tech, it means to take steps that make systems tough against attacks.

Technical Security

IT security is dynamic, and systems must be regularly hardened.

Continuous Process

 when politicians want to posture as tough on crime but don't actually want to change the status quo. And research shows it backfires all over the world. If you throw a lot of low-level offenders into jails, usually already overcrowded jails, they learn from each other and they harden.

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 there and the dust her she just helps to dislodge any parasites that might be on the body helps to keep the skin in good condition and obviously during the summer they will actually put mud all over their bodies as well and when the mud hardens then that'll have fall off

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 The capillaries in the lungs become engorged with blood -- which is caused by the suction -- so the lungs can harden and protect the whole chest cavity from being crushed. It prevents the two walls of the lungs from collapsing, from sticking together and caving in.

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 Deep in the bowels of the nest lives the termite queen. If she is killed, the entire colony will die out. She must be protected, so termites start to isolate her from the fighting by building a wall of mud mixed with saliva that will harden like concrete.

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 displaces the blood which escapes through an incision usually in the jugular vein almost immediately the corpse begins to harden this may seem like a process dreamed up by a mad scientist but in reality embalming has deep historical and religious roots in

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 muscles burst into life and the dragonfly floats up into the afternoon sunshine the pale and fragile dragonfly must now find a quiet spot to roost while its exoskeleton hardens and develops the rich core scheme the adult running form

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 so we can get to what is really important -- how you die. There are many ways to become a fossil, so let's highlight your top death options. You could get yourself trapped in tree sap, which, when hardens, turns into amber

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 destructive forces of nature they have also helped make life on earth possible volcanic ash provides nutrients to nearby soil making the land fertile and lava when it cools hardens into rock and creates new landforms

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 in tree sap. The sap or resin forms a protective seal around the entrapped organism. Over time, the soft resin hardens and turns into amber with the organism suspended within.

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