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«. . . there was about him a suggestion of lurking ferocity, as though the Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.»
«When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. But at six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appears before him. His throat will close, and spots of nausea and rage swim in his vision.»
«Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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collective, ferocity, herd, herding, instinct, in regard to, members, produce, regarded, regard as, stimulate, stimulated, stimulates, tended, tended to, tending, tends, tends to, The Herd
«The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing»
Author: Havelock Ellis
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Age,
Senses
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assail, assailed, assailing, assails, entering, ferocity, grants, sanitary, sense of hearing, sense of smell
«When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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calls, crime, distinction, ferocity, justice, murder, murdering, sport, sporting man, The Sporting, The Tiger, tiger
«When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Sports
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ferocity, The Tiger, tiger
«When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity»
«He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices»
«The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye»
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