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...writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ...

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...writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ...

John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
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...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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You want something real bad? Go after it with ferocity like if your life depended on it and never ever surrender. Only a question of time.

Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
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There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to humanity, and to every idea we have of moral justice, as any thing done by Robespierre, by Carrier, by Joseph le Bon, in France, by the English government in the East Indies, or by any other assassin in modern times. When we read in the books ascribed to Moses, Joshua, etc., that they (the Israelites) came by stealth upon whole nations of people, who, as the history itself shews, had given them no offence; that they put all those nations to the sword; that they spared neither age nor infancy; that they utterly destroyed men, women and children; that they left not a soul to breathe; expressions that are repeated over and over again in those books, and that too with exulting ferocity; are we sure these things are facts? are we sure that the Creator of man commissioned those things to be done? Are we sure that the books that tell us so were written by his authority?

Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
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There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to humanity, and to every idea we have of moral justice, as any thing done by Robespierre, by Carrier, by Joseph le Bon, in France, by the English government in the East Indies, or by any other assassin in modern times. When we read in the books ascribed to Moses, Joshua, etc., that they (the Israelites) came by stealth upon whole nations of people, who, as the history itself shews, had given them no offence; that they put all those nations to the sword; that they spared neither age nor infancy; that they utterly destroyed men, women and children; that they left not a soul to breathe; expressions that are repeated over and over again in those books, and that too with exulting ferocity; are we sure these things are facts? are we sure that the Creator of man commissioned those things to be done? Are we sure that the books that tell us so were written by his authority?...The Bible tells us, that those assassinations were done by the express command of God. And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo every thing that is tender, sympathising, and benevolent in the heart of man. Speaking for myself, if I had no other evidence that the Bible is fabulous, than the sacrifice I must make to believe it to be true, that alone would be sufficient to determine my choice.

Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
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Ferocity is a trait highly regarded amongst us.

Stefan Mroczkowski, Tommy Avenger and the House of Bones
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As if the jealousy of a lover could ever compete with the ferocity of a mother.

Sarah A. Denzil
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It must be tempered with discipline. Ferocity is useless unless employed in the proper place . . .

Jim Butcher, Cursor's Fury
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The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: A Philosophical Reading
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

George Bernard Shaw
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