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We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive
Martin Luther King Jr., American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968)
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I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the opposite virtue, as in Epaminondas, who possessed extreme courage and extreme kindness. Otherwise it is not rising to the heights but falling down. We show greatness, not by being at one extreme, but by touching both at once and occupying all the space in between.
Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623–1662)
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Civil war in man between reason and passions.

If there were only reason without passions.

If there were only passions without reason.

But since he has both he cannot be free from war, for he can only be at peace with the one if he is at war with the other.
Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623–1662)
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