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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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"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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"Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity."
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"I want to force the other drivers to find a way past me."
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"Nothing matures a military force quicker than actual military operations."
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"I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away."
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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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"When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant."
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"Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security."
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"The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher."
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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness."
Happiness
"The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once."
Force
"Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct."
Instinct
"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
"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
"Another occupation might have been better."
Career
"It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself."
Man
"Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false."
Truth
"The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge."
Virtue
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