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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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"No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech."
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"We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers."
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"There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better."
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"Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere."
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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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"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 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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"Let each produce according to his aptitudes and his force; let each consume according to his need."
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"It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force."
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"Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason."
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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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"There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us."
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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

"Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct."
Instinct

"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

"Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink."
Heart

"There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth."
Truth

"True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat."
Man

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

"The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge."
Virtue
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