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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. – Robert Frost

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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone. – Robert Frost

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