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«But I have to say, probably when I'm about 30 I'll be pretty, not settled, but happy with what I've accomplished so far. I'm happy where I am now.»
«For, once man is declared 'the measure of all things,' there is no longer a true, or a good, or a just, but only opinions of equal validity whose clash can be settled only by political or military force; and each force in turn enthrones in its hour o»
«Could you possibly have settled down to the old life and forgotten the fairyland through which you had passed? My child, I do not think so.»
«As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.»
«All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.»
«Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
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Violence
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«A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked?»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
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«As in nature, things move violently to their place and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
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«A `strange coincidence', to use a phrase / By which such things are settled nowadays.»
«A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two»
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