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"Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Let each produce according to his aptitudes and his force; let each consume according to his need."

"Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason."

"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."

"Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores."
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"No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book."

"It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me."

"No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated."

"There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins."
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