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"When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant."
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"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal."
"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."
"The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved."
"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."
"From those few pending questions which the Commission would be called upon to solve at its fourth session, the most important one was the entry into force of the treaty."
"Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity."
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"My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners."
"When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant."
"In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories."
"Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment."
"Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster."
"Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!"
"Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe."
"But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know."
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