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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. ↗

— Robert Frost

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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#head #heart

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#cannot #compete #dominance #empty #her

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

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It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#being #clear #falsehoods #force #human

Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie. ↗

— Edward Furlong

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He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played. ↗

— William Gaddis

#collapse #high #his #most #noted

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#aspect #being #cerebral #cherished #comes

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#forward #greater #knowledge #search #step

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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