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"The most violent element in society is ignorance." »Emma Goldman
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"Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work." »Gustave Flaubert
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"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes." »Daniel Defoe
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"America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists." »Barack Obama
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"The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class." »Paul Fussell
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"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." »Albert Einstein
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"You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture." »Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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"When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us." »Margery Allingham
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"Only the paths that lead to nowhere, merely the storms that are violent, purely the dangerous forests make man a real man!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms." »William Bradford
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"The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves." »Joseph Addison
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." »James Madison
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"We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart." »Honore' de Balzac
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"All writers-all people-have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory." »Sir V Pritchett
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"If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. (Handwritten statement found in her residence)" »Indira Nehru Gandhi
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"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." »Albert Einstein
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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." »Albert Einstein
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"It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state." »Thomas Elliot
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"An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction" »Hoshang N. Akhtar
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"Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation." »R Chamberlain
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"It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state." »T.S. Elliot
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"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths." »James Madison, Federalist Papers (# 10)
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"There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow." »Christopher Darlington Morley
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"Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music." »Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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"What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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"What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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"The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation." »Anne Rice
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"It was a dark and stormy night the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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