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• We are going to be able to defeat ISIS on the ground there, as well as in this world, because of the Muslim Americans in our country and throughout the world who understand that this brutal and barbaric group is perverting the name of a great world religion.

  Martin O'Malley

  Country, Names, Isis

  The CBS Democratic debate, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2015.

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• We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?

  Emma Goldman

  War, Home, Independent

  Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York

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• The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Breakup, Russia, Ukraine

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• Reconciling with an adversary that can be as brutal as the Taliban sounds distasteful, even unimaginable. And diplomacy would be easy if we only had to talk to our friends. But that is not how one makes peace.

  Hillary Clinton

  Sound, Would Be, Easy

  "Taliban talks could be closer" by Jonathan Steele, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2011.

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• Painful life is brutal and painless life is superficial.

  Kedar Joshi

  Painful Life, Life Is, Superficial

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• Some think that it is cruel or brutal to remove the bottom 10 percent of our people. It isn't. It's just the opposite. What I think is brutal and "false kindness" is keeping people around who aren't going to grow and prosper. There's no cruelty like waiting and telling people late into their careers that they don't belong - just when the options are limited and they're putting their children through college or paying off big mortgages.

  Jack Welch

  Children, Kindness, College

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• They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Losing, Teach

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• Here we observe the basic obsessive fantasy of Žižek's position: do nothing, sit still, prefer not to, like Melville's Bartleby, and silently dream of a ruthless violence, a consolidation of state power into one man's hands, an act of brutal physical force of which you are the object or the subject or both at once.

  Simon Critchley

  Dream, Men, Hands

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• The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how to remain at the surface, how to subtract it's subject from it's deepest context of historical reality. The same goes for contemporary art, where we often encounter brutal attempts to return to the Real, to remind the spectator or reader that he is perceiving a fiction, to awaken him from a sweet dream.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Dream, Sweet, Art

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• I know that the vitriol and hyperbole that exists online, and the anonymity, can be deadly because it's cloaked in negativity and it's brutal sometimes.

  Adrian Pasdar

  Negativity, Sometimes, Online

  Source: collider.com

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• Being the youngest, I constantly have that insecurity of being the youngest, which ultimately is probably my drive. in a lot of ways. In terms of as an artist, the way we could communicate as a family very clearly was through movies and through acting, and when things became complicated with all of our own personalities, that's where we are most clear. I think that's also where we are most brutal with each other as well.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Artist, Thinking, Personality

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• Our world was brutal, immoral, smug and conventional. We had unbounded contempt for all those who did not sin as we sinned.

  Jim Tully

  Our World, Sin, Contempt

  Jim Tully (1927). “Circus Parade”

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• With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials.

  Joel Miller

  War, Thinking, Witch Trials

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• For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking, streaming, whirling; the gestures of light flowing or spurting through color. I see everything as possessing or possessed by gesture. I've often thought of my paintings as having an axis around which everything revolves.

  Elaine de Kooning

  Color, Space, Light

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• Persistence is worth at least as much as talent. The writing life is not a series of gentle encouragements. It's more like a series of brutal kicks in the teeth. Those who grow a thick enough skin to persevere, survive. Those who do not, do not.

  Gardner Dozois

  Encouragement, Writing, Persistence

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• I don't know if any of us are mature enough to handle the brutal honesty of what's inside other people's heads.

  James Marsters

  Honesty, People, Mature

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• Nature is a perfect example of the harmony between the beautiful and the brutal. You turn over a pretty rock and there are worms writhing underneath.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Beautiful, Rocks, Perfect

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• War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.

  Rick Warren

  War, Exercise, Community

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• Capitalism is a pretty brutal place.

  Charlie Munger

  Capitalism

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• Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough.

  Cameron Diaz

  Self, Good Enough, Made

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• Performing is about developing empathy, which leads us to a broader view of the world and encourages us to develop compassion; so we can comfort each other and not be so brutal with each other.

  Willem Dafoe

  Compassion, Views, Empathy

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• When crossing someone's borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.

  Sylvester Stallone

  War, Borders, Territory

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Views, Optimism, Might

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• Capturing Saddam Hussein and ensuring that this brutal dictator will never return to power is an important step toward stabilizing Iraq for the Iraqis. Let's also be clear: Our problems in Iraq have not been caused by one man, and this is a moment when the administration can and must launch a major effort to gain international support and win the peace.

  John F. Kerry

  Men, Winning, Iraq

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• Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.

  Andy Cohen

  Mom, Father, Smooth Jazz

  Andy Cohen (2012). “Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture”, p.7, Macmillan

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