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By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.


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GENE FOWLER We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Human...
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GENE WILDER Before a show, you might have aches or pains, or it's a bad rainy day, or it's too humid. We...
GENE SIMMONS There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy considera...
GENE KELLY The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low, and voters lack...
GENE GREEN Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
GENE WOLFE The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them...
GENE TUNNEY Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it st...
GENE WILDER The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek...
GENE RODDENBERRY Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
GENE FOWLER Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Ele...
GENE GREEN The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express someth...
GENE SIMMONS My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mik...
GENE TUNNEY Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impress...
GENE TUNNEY A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body.
GENE TUNNEY A concave chest means that your diaphragm is sagging.
GENE TUNNEY Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood an...
GENE TUNNEY Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.
GENE TUNNEY