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"The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once."
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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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"Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies."
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"Nothing matures a military force quicker than actual military operations."
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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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"A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting."
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"'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force."
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"The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest."
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"Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment. It's not about trying to force any particular style within the parameters - and the parameters we play in are pretty large!"
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"The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care."
Fear

"The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind."
Mind

"The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once."
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"Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct."
Instinct

"The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."
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"One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot."
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"It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least."
Nature

"The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one."
Fact

"We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings."
Family

"There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us."
Interest
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