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"The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell."
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"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal."
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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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"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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"Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force."
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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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"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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"Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment."
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"Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best."
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"The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself."
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"The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself."
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"Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only."
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"Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it."
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"An art book is a museum without walls."
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"Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always."
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"The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell."
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"Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act."
Success

"Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real."
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"To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved."
Art
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