#brute

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing. ↗

— Jose Marti

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I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#cannot #conceive #feet #hands #head

But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

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Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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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

#been #blazing #brute #brute force #bryan

Indeed, "brute force" solutions are often characteristic of advanced cultures, not primitive ones. The Romans and their predecessors spent a long time figuring out how to build arches... and virtually all our buildings today use post-and-lintel construction, precisely what the arch was devised to replace. We have better materials and more money, and given that, arches are usually not worth the extra complexity. ↗

— Henry Spencer

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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you. ↗

— Jane Porter

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Had she any respect for him at all, his words would've affected her. But no value accompanies comments spewed from the mouth of a brute. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#comments #criticism #remarks #respect #richelle