“ The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says "mine, mine," more fiercely. ”
- Charles Horton Cooley- Copy
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“ There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. ”
- Willa Cather- Copy
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“ It's always very touching when you find a character on the screen who is fiercely defending your character. ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
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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 rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
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“ However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself. ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
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“ Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought — by force of circumstances, not argument — to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature — opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: "Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.". ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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