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The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Brute Daring Fantasy Impose Joy Lightning Professional Soccer Speed Sport Strength

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It seems as if, for every dragon head that is lopped off, two more terrible appear. Seems so. But in truth, Life is gaining all the while. Brute force, such power as there seems to be in things, cannot stand against ideas which are eternal.

~Edward Everett Hale

Topics: Against Appear Brute Brute Force Cannot Dragon Eternal Every Force Gaining Head Ideas Life More Off Power Seems Stand Terrible Things Truth Two Which While

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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

~Edward Young

Topics: Blush Brute Man Quite

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When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me.

~Eric Liu

Topics: All My Life Around Been Blazing Brute Brute Force Bryan Equivalent Fastball Force He How Life Made Me My Life Myself People Pitcher Price See Speed Taught Throw Trying Use Wow

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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

~George Bancroft

Topics: Brute Brute Force Civilization Common Degree Exact Force Intelligence Measure Mind Over Progress Wealth Which

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The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: About Absurd Big Brute Celestial Future His Idea Imagine Intensely Me Personal Personality Preserving Repugnant Rider Roosevelt Rough Salvation State

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They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.

~George Combe

Topics: Any Brute Brute Force Chooses England Few Force Her Invader Like Mass Me Midst Nation Nonsense Overwhelming Robbed Seemed Shores Submission Submit Visit Who Wisdom

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