#subdue

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form. ↗

— Allen Tate

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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature . ↗

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement. ↗

— Jil Sander

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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color. ↗

— Beatrice Wood

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Any time someone gives you drugs, the purpose is to subdue. Always. Whether it is from a dealer, a friend, your mother/brother/sister/son, or your government--especially your government--the intention is to subdue, and always to feed another motive. Why? Because in getting high, your power and your intellect are blunted. Can the motive ever be in your best interests? Governments notoriously use sex, drink, and drugs to subdue their people. Notoriously. And we're falling for it. ↗

— Northern Adams

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As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. ↗

— Lord Byron

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The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

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