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This is a completely unreformed and unreconstructed, authoritarian, brutish institution that has violence and cruelty in its DNA. – David Mathieson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
A feast of dedication; yet he calls it a feast to Jehovah; for as brutish as they were, they did not design to terminate their adoration in the image; but they made it for a representation of the true God...yet this did not excuse them from gross idolatry.” – John Wesley	added by anonymous 5 years ago
First, we feel your pain, Boston, for this cold is brutish and dangerous, second . . . in the foreseeable future, any warmth we can generate will come from human kindness. Such warmth is worth a lot. It can be a game-changer. – Nancy Taylor	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. – Thomas Carlyle	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. – Thomas Hobbes, "The Leviathan"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts. – Thomas Carlyle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. – Sir Charles Spencer Charlie Chaplin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Check out the Declaration of Independence You think it promises happiness No no no, it talks about the pursuit of happiness. The PURSUIT We've become a nation of wimps We think we're entitled to everything, we want to legislate ourselves into some cozy little cocoon. Well, forget it, Nature Boy. There are no guarantees. Life is nasty, brutish, and short. – Jeff Melvoin	added by anonymous 14 years ago

This is a completely unreformed and unreconstructed, authoritarian, brutish institution that has violence and cruelty in its DNA.

– David Mathieson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

A feast of dedication; yet he calls it a feast to Jehovah; for as brutish as they were, they did not design to terminate their adoration in the image; but they made it for a representation of the true God...yet this did not excuse them from gross idolatry.”

– John Wesley

added by anonymous
5 years ago

First, we feel your pain, Boston, for this cold is brutish and dangerous, second . . . in the foreseeable future, any warmth we can generate will come from human kindness. Such warmth is worth a lot. It can be a game-changer.

– Nancy Taylor

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

– Thomas Carlyle

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

– Thomas Hobbes, "The Leviathan"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.

– Thomas Carlyle

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

– Sir Charles Spencer Charlie Chaplin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Check out the Declaration of Independence You think it promises happiness No no no, it talks about the pursuit of happiness. The PURSUIT We've become a nation of wimps We think we're entitled to everything, we want to legislate ourselves into some cozy little cocoon. Well, forget it, Nature Boy. There are no guarantees. Life is nasty, brutish, and short.

– Jeff Melvoin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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one whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action

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