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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
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"Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force."

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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
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"True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force-necessity."

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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
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"The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality."

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
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"nobody can save you but yourself. you will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. they will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. nobody can save you but yourself"

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Warren Christopher Politician
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"We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone."

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
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"It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process."

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"To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving."

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