“ Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
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“ Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
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“ Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. - The Deer Park. ”
- Norman Mailer- Copy
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“ True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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“ It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
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“ Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation, I ha lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ She got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. ”
- Ralph McGill- Copy
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“ The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed. ”
- William Ernest Henley- Copy
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“ To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult. ”
- Isaac Asimov- Copy
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“ The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal. ”
- Cesare Pavese- Copy
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“ The universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be. ”
- Laurell K. Hamilton- Copy
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“ We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do. ”
- Rabindranath Tagore- Copy
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“ She got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. on Eleanor Roosevelt. ”
- Ralph McGill- Copy
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“ The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already. ”
- Edward Abbey- Copy
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“ War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered. ”
- Henri Frederic Amiel- Copy
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“ Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel, that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life. ”
- Jiddu Krishnamurti- Copy
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