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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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"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal."
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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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"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."
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"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."
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"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."
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"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."
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"Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity."
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"It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in force solely for the aggregate of these commodities."
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"Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not."
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"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
"Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious."
Mind
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."
Art
"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether."
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"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
Thought
"Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning."
Philosophy
"Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination."
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"The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals."
Force
"Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas."
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