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"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic." »James Grover Thurber
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"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason." »Whitheead
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"Master of Life is the person who is best at keeping the brutal scars of life to a minimum!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented." »Albert Einstein
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"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn." »C.S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)
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"School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality." »Kedar Joshi
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"“The power trust is nothing more than a select group of dictators, with the same goals and objectives - but unlike the brutal dictators we study in history - this select group prefers to operate in the dark, behind banks, governments, politicians, companies, and so forth.”" »John Rocco Savalli
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"...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death." »Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from "Love in the Time of Cholera"
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