One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.
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One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.
Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.
That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.
Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.
There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.
Love has no thought of self!_x000D_ _x000D_ Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold_x000D_ _x000D_ The loathsome prostitution of a hand_x000D_ _x000D_ Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things_x000D_ _x000D_ To bless the thing it loves!
I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness.
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