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"The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell."
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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."

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

"Nothing matures a military force quicker than actual military operations."

"I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away."

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

"When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant."

"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."

"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."

"Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best."
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"Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real."

"There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases."

"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."

"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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