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• I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.

  Paula Fox

  People, Lovely, Kind

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• Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood!

  Maya Angelou

  Whining, Victim, Neighborhood

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• Do you know," he said, "there are men who would like very much to see me dead. Powerful men. Obscenely wealthy me. Men who can afford to be patient and engage the services of large, ruthless brutes. I've managed to evade them all. But you...God's truth, I think you'll be the very death of me.

  Tessa Dare

  Powerful, Men, Thinking

  Tessa Dare (2010). “Three Nights with a Scoundrel”, p.19, Ballantine Books

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• i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood that, finally and absolutely, i alone exist. all the rest, i saw, is merely what pushes me, or what i push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. i create the whole universe, blink by blink.

  John Gardner

  Enmity, World, Saws

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• Governments are based pincipally on force and deception. Democratic governments are based chiefly on deception, other governments on force. And democratic governments, if you get too uppity, give up on the deception and resort to brute force, as a lot of us found out in the sixites. Those who didn't find out in the sixites will find out in the near future because we're going to have a rerun.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Giving Up, Government, Deception

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• Through my scientific work I have come to believe more and more strongly that the physical universe is put together with an ingenuity so astonishing that I cannot accept it as a brute fact....I cannot believe that our existence in this universe is a mere quirk of fate, an accident of history, an incidental blip in the great cosmic drama.

  Paul Davies

  Drama, Believe, Fate

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• I early learned that there were two natures in me. This caused me a great deal of trouble, till I worked out a philosophy of life and struck a compromise between the flesh and the spirit. Too great an ascendancy of either was to be abnormal, and since normality is almost a fetish of mine, I finally succeeded in balancing both natures. Ordinarily they are at equilibrium; yet as frequently as one is permitted to run rampant, so is the other. I have small regard for an utter brute or for an utter saint.

  Jack London

  Running, Philosophy, Two

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• Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter, And spite of dogmas current in all ages, One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!)

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Men, Age, Matter

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems”, p.782, Bottletree Books LLC

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• I noticed at once that Depp had a dangerously energized intelligence . . . He was a suave little brute, but he had a wicked sense of humor and a rare instinct for escalation.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Wicked, Suave, Littles

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• Democracy is not brute numbers; it is a genuine union of true individuals...the essence of democracy is creating. The technique of democracy is group organization.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Essence, Organization, Creating

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• In this primitive and abject state [of hunters and gatherers], which ill deserves the name of society, the human brute, without arts or laws, almost without sense or language, is poorly distinguished from the rest of the animal creation.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Animal, Law

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• We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding.

  John Flavel

  Understanding, Distinguished, Senses

  John Flavel (1701). “The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel: ... to which are added alphabetical tables of the texts of scripture explained, and indexes of the principal matters contained in both volumes”, p.497

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• Not less than two hours a day should be devoded to exercise, and weather should be little regarded. A person not sick will not be injured by getting wet. It is but taking a cold bath, which never gives a cold to any one. Brute animals are the most healthy, and they are exposed to all weather, and of men, those are healthiest who are the most exposed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Men, Animal

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1099, Library of America

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• I must give you a piece of intelligence that you perhaps already know, namely that the ungodly arch-villain Voltaire has died miserably like a dog, just like a brute. That is his reward!

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Dog, Giving, Pieces

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1866). “The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1769-1791)”, p.214

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• For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Thinking, Years, People

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3988, Library of Alexandria

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• We say that if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realize the Divine within, you are welcome to it. Have two hundred images if you like. If certain forms and formulas help you to realize the Divine, God speed you; have, by all means, whatever forms, temples, whatever ceremonies you want to bring you nearer to God. But do not quarrel about them; the moment you quarrel, you are not going Godward, you are going backward towards the brutes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Two, Want

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• That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Law, Giving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1893). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons from the Stenographic Reports by T.J. Ellinwood. September 1868 to September 1873”

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• No general description of the mode of advance of human knowledge can be just which leaves out of account the social aspect of knowledge. That is of its very essence. What a thing society is! The workingman, with his trade union, knows that. Men and women moving in polite society understand it, still better. But Bohemians, like me, whose work is done in solitude, are apt to forget that not only is a man as a whole little better than a brute in solitude, but also that everything that bears any important meaning to him must receive its interpretation from social considerations.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Moving, Men, Essence

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• What took me decades to learn, these kids can get on the Internet...What I learned by brute force, dealing out hands, they learn on computers. It tends to make for fairly technical players, but they make up for it with aggression, the kind that comes when you learn things fast.

  Doyle Brunson

  Kids, Player, Hands

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• I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

  Rand Paul

  Government, Bully, Care

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• Stieglitz conceived, though he never carried out, a series of photographs of the heads of stallions and mares, of bulls and cows, in the act of mating, hoping to catch in the brute an essential quality that would symbolize the probably unattainable photograph of a passionate human mating.

  Lewis Mumford

  Quality, Essentials, Passionate

  Lewis Mumford, Robert Wojtowicz (2008). “Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930s”, p.58, Univ of California Press

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• By work alone, men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnani, Christ was a Bhakta, but the same goal was reached by both of them. Good motives, sincerity, and infinite love can conquer the world. One single soul possessed of these virtues can destroy the dark designs of millions of hypocrites and brutes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Prayer, Hypocrite, Dark

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• Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump basically share a policy of brute military strength. And both, I think, make a lot of Americans uneasy about our foreign policy going forward, which needs a frank discussion. Likewise on the issue of student debt and the future of our younger generation.

  Jill Stein

  Military, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Wherever man has left the stamp of mind on brute-matter; whether we designate his work as structure, texture, or mixture, mechanical or chymical; whether the result be a house, a ship, a garment, a piece of glass, or a metallic implement, these memorials of economy and invention will always be worthy of the attention of the Archaeologist.

  Charles Thomas Newton

  Science, Men, Glasses

  Charles Thomas Newton (2010). “Essays on Art and Archaeology”, p.35, Cambridge University Press

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• Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute force of government.

  Walter E. Williams

  Powerful, Government, People

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