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At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will al...

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The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely ...

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Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared wha...

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The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complain...

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They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy...

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Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of ...

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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then,...

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Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted...

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It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves sav...

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During a famine, the father and stepmother of Hansel and Gretel abandon them in a forest so that the...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can n...

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It is deep January. The sky is hard.The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.It is in this solitude, a sy...

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Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the ...

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