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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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"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."
Experience
"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."
History
"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
Wisdom
"It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression."
Expression
"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
Thought
"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
Mankind
"Seek simplicity but distrust it."
Distrust
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."
Civilization
"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."
Tradition
"Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them."
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"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal."
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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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"Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me."
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"Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force."
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"It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining."
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"Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts."
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"The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia."
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"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."
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"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."
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"To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning."
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