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Tag Name "Brute" (157)

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
Charles Baudelaire
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Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
Simone Weil
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Realise that man is comparable to the brute creation except when uplifted by the loving Covenant initiated with our Patriarchs.
Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits
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Charm — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
Havelock Ellis
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True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of free worship has disappeared. And where religion and democracy have vanished, good faith and reason in international affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Power is not brute force and money power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth it is in your relationship to the earth.
Winona LaDuke
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
Edward Young
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He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.
Walter Scott
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Always assume that your opponent is going to be bigger, stronger and faster than you so that you learn to rely on technique, timing and leverage rather than brute strength
Helio Gracie
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Boxing isn't just about brute strength it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.
Lennox Lewis
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You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are you to lose sight of practicality. We must avoid the two extremes.... You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality.
Swami Vivekananda
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I bet you’re not dangerous at all, are you? Are you, you great ugly brute?
J. K. Rowling
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
Henry David Thoreau
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Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)
Markus Zusak
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It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.
Will Self
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
Edmund Burke
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Do not admire the warriors do not admire the fighters condemn the fist! Get rid of this low culture of wildness! Admire the nonviolent applaud the peaceful despise the brute force!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force.
Vladimir Putin
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Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.
Gerald Vizenor
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Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
Jean de La Fontaine
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