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"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity."
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"The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals."
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"Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be."
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"Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live."
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"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
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"There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live."
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"The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before."
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"At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar."
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"I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force."
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"I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that."
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"Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think."
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"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."
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"In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time."
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"You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you."
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"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness."
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"There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances."
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"Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction."
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"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man."
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"England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases."
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"Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect."
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"The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself."
Nature
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