“ Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
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“ Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
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“ Science is simply common sense at its best — that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. ”
- Thomas H. Huxley- 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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“ I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
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“ My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and I might add infinitely absurd. ”
- Robert Ingersoll- Copy
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“ It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. ”
- Isadora Duncan- Copy
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“ Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon. ”
- Isak Dinesen- 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 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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“ And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die. ”
- Oscar Wilde- 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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“ Be damn sure before you get off the ferris wheel, because there are twenty-two perky and ruthless women waiting to get on. ”
- Kim Cattrall- 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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“ Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures. ”
- Dennis Potter- 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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“ He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. - The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647. ”
- Baltasar Gracian- Copy
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“ Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel. ”
- Hedy Lamarr- Copy
- 1K
“ A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
- 3K
“ We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves. ”
- Daniel Boone- Copy
- 1.9K
“ It is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men. ”
- Frank Harris- Copy
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