Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION: force

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Quoted In The Grove:
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
~Margaret Fuller

What is a soul? It’s like electricity ‒ we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.
~Ray Charles

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
~Ray Bradbury

EndQuote:
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
~Mignon McLaughlin

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Next Prompt: sense

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My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
~Aeschylus

Fear is a far more dominant force in human behaviour than euphoria ‒ I would never have expected that or given it a moment’s thought before, but it shows up in the data in so many ways.
~Alan Greenspan (economist)

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as you use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.
~Dalai Lama

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Life is called Samsara ‒ it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, “The voice of freedom is a delusion.” Idealism says, “The voice that tells of bondage is but a dream.” Vedanta says, “We are free and not free at the same time.” That means that we are never free on the earthly plane, but ever free on the spiritual side. The Self is beyond both freedom and bondage. We are Brahman, we are immortal knowledge beyond the senses, we are Bliss Absolute.
~Swami Vivekananda

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
~Leo Tolstoy

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All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
~James Freeman Clarke

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
~Amiel

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.
~Yo-Yo Ma

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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
~Thomas Hobbes

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
~John Dalberg-Acton

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
~Charles Curtis

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The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it’s nostalgia.
~Pete Hamill

I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stuff in the joints. They forget what they cared about. The forces against it are nostalgia and the enormous appeal of having things the way they always have been, appeals to a supposedly happy past. But we’ve got to move on.
~John W Gardner

Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!
~Robert A Heinlein

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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
~Carl von Clausewitz

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.
~William Ellery Channing

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I defy you to find any real will, any reasoning force, outside of life. And everything is there; there is, in the world, no other will than this force which impels everything to life, a life even broader and higher.
~Emile Zola

Do ghosts and gods not count as will, and life, and forces to be reckoned with outside of scripture and fable? If no, then they live only because of words, and have no other substance. They are nothing but the air we breathe.
~author unknown

I think of the cold as a noble force.
~Wim Hof

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The life we live today ‒ the environment in which we live ‒ is not one of security ‒ it’s one of doubt, one of suspicion, one of absolute tension ‒ we’re not a pastoral society any more. We feel around us the pressure of man’s inadequacy to control his own development. The time when the great forces of nature, the stones and the rocks, were the gods, is gone.
~Reg Butler

It’s an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure… Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
~Harold W Dodds

Humans are creatures of habit. If you quit when things get tough, it gets that much easier to quit the next time. On the other hand, if you force yourself to push through it, the grit begins to grow in you.
~Travis Bradberry

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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
~John Dalberg-Acton

Other nations use ‘force’; we Britons alone use ‘Might’.
~Evelyn Waugh

Russia! Russia… Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker’s gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?
~Nikolai Gogol

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Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.
~William Whewell

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
~Isaac Newton

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
~Vera Rubin

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A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
~William Wordsworth

I happen to be one of the people who believe that the Internet is a force of good, and I’m very optimistic about it.
~Eric Whitacre

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
~Laurence J Peter

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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
~Irving Berlin

Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.
~Melody Beattie

I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.
~Michael Phelps

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A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
~Abraham Lincoln

There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
~Denis Diderot

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
~Sophie Swetchine

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Posted From The Grove

The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin, our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?
~Douglas MacArthur, General

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm… that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.
~James Prescott Joule

Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.
~Henry Campbell-Bannerman

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Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.
~Byron White (USSC)

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
~Ayn Rand

Force always attracts men of low morality.
~Albert Einstein

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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
~Noam Chomsky

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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
~George Bernard Shaw

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.
~Chris Hedges

If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.
~George Soros

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore’s, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy
~Peter L Berger

To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces; one also knows that there is not an awful lot that one can do about this.
~Peter L Berger (semicolon inserted for clarity ~Ed Note)

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Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man…
~Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

If we develop the force of will, we shall find that we do not need the force of arms.
~Mahatma Gandhi

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I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it.
~Nathan Bedford Forrest (Confederate General, slave trader)

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.
~Abraham Lincoln

It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.
~William H Seward (Lincoln’s Sec State)

If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force, you say we shall not go, but shall remain as subjects to you, then, gentlemen of the North, a war is to be inaugurated the like of which men have not seen.
~Jefferson Davis

Civil War produced more dead American soldiers than all wars combined until Vietnam. ~Ed Note

The enemy has assailed my outposts in heavy force. I have fallen back on the line of Bull Run and will make a stand at Mitchell’s Ford.
~General PGT Beauregard (started Civil War @Ft Sumter)

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Disunion by force is treason.
~Andrew Jackson

Nationalism can be a destructive force when it promotes intolerance and division. But it can also be a force for good, when it seeks to defend local autonomy against the homogenizing forces of larger entities.
~Maxime Bernier

International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
~Norman Finkelstein

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
~Robert Collier

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.
~Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.
~William H Seward

Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.
~Seth Grahame-Smith

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The reality of man is his thought, not his material body. The thought force and the animal force are partners. Although man is part of the animal creation, he possesses a power of thought superior to all other created beings.
~Abdu’l-Bahá

We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world, through a few brains. The arts and institutions of men are created out of thought. The powers that make the capitalist are metaphysical, the force of method and force of will makes trade, and builds towns.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds.
~Kim Namjoon (RM, of BTS)

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

Power aquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
~Denis Diderot

It seems as if, for every dragon head that is lopped off, two more terrible appear. Seems so. But in truth, Life is gaining all the while. Brute force, such power as there seems to be in things, cannot stand against ideas which are eternal.
~Edward Everett Hale

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force ‒ that thoughts rule the world.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
~Franklin D Roosevelt

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding and gradual training. Ongoing spiritual practice can help us cultivate a new way of relating to life in which we let go of our battles.
~Jack Kornfield

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As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.
~Christopher Columbus

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.
~Kim Jong Il

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If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.
~Robert Jackson (USSC)

Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely.
~Publilius Syrus

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Communism is trying to take the world by force. But God will take the world by love.
~Sun Myung Moon

I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology ‒ that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.
~Steven Pinker

We continue to advocate and demand that the territorial integrity of both Ukraine and Georgia be preserved… It is absolutely unacceptable that in the 21st century, Russia is shifting borders in Europe by force.
~Andrzej Duda

The United States supports a free and independent Taiwan, and the Chinese Communist Party’s continued show of force and violations of human rights cannot be ignored.
~Michelle Steel

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It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty all over the globe, and especially over this continent ‒ even by force, if necessary. It is a sad delusion.
~John C Calhoun

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
~Martin Luther King, Jr

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
~H L Mencken

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
~John Stuart Mill

Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
~John Milton

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
~William Penn

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Life’s too short and too complicated for people behind desks, people behind masks to be ruining other people’s lives, initiating force against other people’s lives on the basis of their income, their color, their class, their religious beliefs, whatever.
~Jeff Buckley

Paperwork will ruin any military force.
~Chesty Puller

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Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force their migration.
~Greg Boyle

We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops… and force migratory birds to stay where they are.
~Vladimir Zhirinovsky (Russian populist, satirist?)

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Have not prisons ‒ which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe ‒ always been universities of crime?
~Peter Kropotkin

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If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program.
~William J Clinton

I can’t tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won’t last any longer than that.
~Donald Rumsfeld (approximately 8 years)

The use of large-scale military force in volatile regions of underdeveloped countries is difficult to do right, has major unintended consequences and rarely turns out to be quick, effective, controlled and short lived.
~Dennis C Blair

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By rejecting the Iranian nuclear deal, Congress can help achieve the original goal of isolating the bad actors in Iran ‒ the Ayatollah Khamenei, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, its Quds Force commander Quassem Soleimani, and the radical clerics.
~Mike Pompeo

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.
~Noam Chomsky

I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us… they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force.
~Frank Carlucci

When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development.
~Albert Einstein

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There are more people at Obama’s table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans’ threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn’t get their millionaires’ tax cut, they still amounted to nothing.
~Eric Alterman

We’ve got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.
~Jennifer Granholm

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
~Francois Rabelais

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Loyalty cannot be blueprinted. It cannot be produced on an assembly line. In fact, it cannot be manufactured at all, for its origin is the human heart‒the center of self-respect and human dignity. It is a force which leaps into being only when conditions are exactly right for it‒and it is a force very sensitive to betrayal.
~Maurice R Franks

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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
~Abraham Lincoln

We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force, and implicitly asks, in the spirit of Josef Stalin, ‘How many divisions do international norms have?’
~Rich Lowry

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
~Patrick Henry

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If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.
~Dick Cheney

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.
~Theodore C Sorensen

There are certain wicked people in the world that you can’t deal with except by force.
~John Keegan

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
~Leon Trotsky

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Mon cher ami, let’s not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we’ll be left in shreds. We are forced to take the same precautions as the animal trainer. If, before going into the cage, he has the misfortune to cut himself while shaving, what a feast for the wild animals!!
~Albert Camus

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The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.
~Elihu Root (Sec of War/State, 1912 Nobel Peace, pre-League of Nations)

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else’s rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it’s supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.
~Ron Paul

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
~Dwight D Eisenhower

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This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.
~Léon Jouhaux (Fr trade unionist, 1951 Nobel Peace)

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Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who … as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.
~Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
~Gamal Abdel Nasser

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.
~Gamal Abdel Nasser

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

I never understood how the common word for it got to be hate, instead of hatred. A bland, flat, plate of hate served up, instead of the force, the sense of rage, the fiery spice that the spoken word, the spitted sound hate•red conjours up.
~author unknown

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Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together.
~Theodor Herzl (father of Zionism)

The force that has overcome Europe and destroyed entire states within days could cope with us, a handful of youngsters. It was an act of desperation … We aspired to only one thing: to sell our lives for the highest possible price.
~Mordechaj Tenenbaum (Zionist activist, 1943, @ge 27)

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The problem of Islam as a political force is an essential one for our time and for the years to come, and we cannot approach it with a modicum of intelligence if we start out from a position of hatred.
~Michel Foucault

Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.
~Mahmoud Abbas

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If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.
~Lal Bahadur (ex-PM, India)

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.
~George Combe (Scottish law)

My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.
~Lech Walesa

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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
~Dwight D Eisenhower

Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.
~Bernice King

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
~Joseph Addison

Justice was the goal, the apex of legal achievement, an image. We were forced to concede. Money is the reality making the rules.
~author unknown

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To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
~Potter Stewart

*X How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
~Edward Coke (The Institutes of the Lawes of England ‒ 1628)

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Whoever relies on the Tao in governing men doesn’t try to force issues or defeat enemies by force of arms. For every force there is a counterforce. Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. The Master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the current of the Tao.
~Laozi

He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.
~Confucius

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Don’t be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.
~Donald Rumsfeld

Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.
~Andrew Mellon

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The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world’s most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.
~John McCarthy

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
~William Shenstone

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
~Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The term ‘the American Left’ is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn’t really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.
~Christopher Hitchens

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A moment’s reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.
~Francis Parker Yockey

Nostalgia, loyalty to perks of the past on the right, misguided emotions and dreams on the left, but change is permanent, forever, a force unforgiving those cornered, caught unprepared.
~author unknown

What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.
~Swami Vivekananda

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There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
~Everett Dirksen

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
~Earl Warren

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.
~Herbert Hoover

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When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
~Dorothy Thompson

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
~Benjamin Tucker

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Since we replaced the compulsory military draft with an all-volunteer force in 1973, our nation has been making decisions about wars without worry over who fights them. I sincerely believe that reinstating the draft would compel the American public to have a stake in the wars we fight as a nation.
~Charles B Rangel

It would have been easier to fight alone with inadequate forces than to have to accept…responsibility for our ally’s lack of fighting qualities and dubious loyalty.
~Albert Kesselring (German Field Marshall, WWII)

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No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.
~Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the planet gunned down by a guy who said a few goofy things no one took seriously. And that’s the problem: America has the best troops and fiercest firepower, but no strategy for throttling the ideology that drives the enemy — in Afghanistan and in Texas.
~Mark Steyn

In the Air Force, you get some weird orders, but you obey them no matter what.
~Gus Grissom

Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.
~Lord North

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When the war ends, it will be found that there was an equal amount of ‘thuggery’ practiced on both sides, that terrible things were done to force the final victory.
~Rufus Jones

Balk the enemy’s power; force him to reveal himself.
~Sun Tzu

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
~Thomas Hobbes

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When the enemies’ land force is once conquered and expelled from the continent, our Marine will rise as if by enchantment and become, within the memory of persons now living, the wonder and envy of the world.
~John Paul Jones

We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary.
~Dick Cheney

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
~Madeleine Albright

America’s finest ‒ our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.
~Sarah Palin

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America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.
~Lincoln Chafee

You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good.
~Harold Pinter

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
~Thomas Jefferson

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Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted.
~Steven Spielberg

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
~Winston Churchill

War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.
~Chiang Kai-shek

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Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force.
~Charles E Wilson

Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.
~Archibald Cox

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
~David Friedman

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.
~Ron Paul

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.
~Norman Cousins

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There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.
~Zebulon Pike

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
~Barack Obama

People in uniform are not sacrosanct. They don’t have all the answers. The use of force is a political decision at its core, in terms of its objectives; then the military, as the experts, must be brought in to tell you how to do it.
~Richard Holbrooke

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To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
~Albert Camus

The heroic action of American law enforcement is the only force standing between us and total anarchy.
~Marjorie Taylor Greene

Fascists, Antifa attacked me, and an all-black police force in Philadelphia, and they claim to be fighting racism.
~Candace Owens

We are mandating forces to hold regular neighbourhood beat meetings. These meetings will give local people the chance to scrutinise the work of their local police.
~Theresa May

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Let’s dig deep to build the kind of police force that our fatherland really deserves. We need a revolution of the police force here in Venezuela, and I will carry it out without delay, without excuses.
~Nicolas Maduro

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
~Lajos Kossuth

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Discretion is the most powerful tool a police officer carries on the beat, because an appropriate level of discretion can short-circuit the use of lethal force. Discretion and de-escalation measures are pro-community, pro-police, and create more trust while making everyone safer.
~John Fetterman

In a scholarly manner I have made it a habit to collect different crowd-control manuals, and I read them to the police sort of reminding them of basic tenants of crowd control, such as minimum use of force to effect an arrest. I tell… the police that they may have been put in a dangerous situation by their superiors.
~Vermin Supreme (performance artist)

I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.
~David Icke

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I think there’s a weapon of cynicism to say, ‘Protest doesn’t work. Organizing doesn’t work. Y’all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it doesn’t do anything,’ because, frankly, it’s said out of fear, because it is a potent force for political change.
~Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols ‒ boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband ‒ is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.
~Hugh Evans

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

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No force can conquer the service personnel and people who, in support of their great leader, have turned out in the struggle to defend their country with confidence in the validity of their cause and their own strength ‒ this is a law and a truth taught by history.
~Kim Jong-un

The notion that the ‘leader’ has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise ‒ if you’d be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut ‒ that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong.
~Tom Stoppard

Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.
~Plato

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
~George Bancroft

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There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.
~Benjamin N Cardozo

There’s a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of ‘soul force’ ‒ something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action…
~Sue Monk Kidd

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
~Anna C Brackett

Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.
~Madame de Stael

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
~J Micha

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The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it’s dangerous.
~George Allen

It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.
~Meles Zenawi

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.
~Che Guevara

I think a legitimate target is the enemy and [the] enemy is basically in uniform, but not all [are] in Uniform. For example in the rural areas, our judgement is that virtually the whole farming community is part of the South African Defence Force.
~Joe Slovo (anti-apartheid activist)

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If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
~James Connolly (Irish revolutionary, executed)

I felt that the IRA, in the context of Irish history, and Sinn Fein were a legitimate force that had to be recognized, and you wouldn’t have peace without them.
~Peter T King (US Rep)

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
~Mao Zedong

I’ve always had a Marxist understanding of history: democracy is a result of a broad modernization process that happens in every country. Neocons think the use of political power can force the pace of change, but ultimately it depends on societies doing it themselves.
~Francis Fukuyama

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We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‘We, the people.’
~Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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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Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
~Karl Liebknecht (German socialist)

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
~Arthur Keith

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
~Alfred North Whitehead

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
~Leon Trotsky

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It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties.
~Bill Shuster

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When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.
~Kevin McCarthy

Don’t force it, get a bigger hammer.
~Arthur Bloch

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Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.
~Mikhail Gorbachev

No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.
~Liberty Hyde Bailey

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Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.
~Jacques Maritain

If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of will and force; of will, united with a physical power sufficient to compel obedience to it, but not necessarily having any moral character whatever.
~Lysander Spooner

Government is force, pure and simple. There’s no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society ‒ people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
~Harry Browne

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.
~Henry Knox

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Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
~Ayn Rand

To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief that, since there are pardons, those sentences which are not pardoned are violent acts of force rather than the products of justice.
~Cesare Beccaria

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
~Ayn Rand

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
~Thomas Jefferson

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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
~Blaise Pascal

What makes a politician accountable is not that there are millions of people who vote, but that there are procedures of government that force him to account for himself.
~Roger Scruton

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Force does not constitute right… obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.
~Paul P Harris

Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind. You could keep it out only so long, but it had its own will and its own needs, and maybe you could keep it at bay with lies, but not for long, not for always.
~Deb Caletti

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Do not ever say that the desire to ‘do good’ by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
~Ayn Rand

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
~Karl Kraus

In the city that the wolf enters, enemies will be close by. An alien force will sack a great country. Allies will cross the mountains and the borders.
~Nostradamus

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~Goksel Beydilli: Force of Lightning (4:06) wild lightning strikes to exotic music

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~Creators of Curiosity: Visual Poems | Van Gogh Part I (2:56) quite nice, something new before it becomes trite… or is it too late

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During the first few minutes in lift-off, the astronauts were strictly controlled and were powerfully buffeted by the forces of nature struggling to keep them on earth. This is somewhat comparable to the pull of the flesh when our alarm goes off early in the morning. Unless we put “mind over mattress” and carry out the resolves made the night before, we will experience our first defeat that day. Not sufficient to finish. Mission aborted.
~Stephen Covey

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Make Money a CENTRAL priority. This has nothing to do with greed and consumption and everything to do with life force and power.
~Danielle LaPorte

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
~William Cobbett

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
~Marcus Garvey

I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever govern nations or Parties, against their vanity, their Pride, their Resentment, or Revenge, or their Avarice, or Ambition. Nothing but Force and Power and Strength can restrain them.
~John Adams

The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
~H P Lovecraft

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People actually ask me why I bring in projects on budget and on time. It seems I am not living up to the fashionable genius role. I really enjoy when a project gets down to the wire, and through sheer force of will and faith in our process, we cross the goal line, when most people thought it impossible.
~Curtis W Fentress (architect)

If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.
~Brian Tracy

If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person’s good qualities, I gather in that force.
~Rudolf Steiner

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The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
~Earl Nightingale

You don’t have to force your career to happen all at once.
~Amandla Stenberg

As a general rule, when your child, or anyone in the work force, doesn’t know what he/she wants to do, they should instead always be developing skills and competencies that will qualify them for the jobs that companies are most looking to fill and increase their hireability.
~Mark Goulston

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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
~John Ruskin

Force has no place where there is need of skill.
~Herodotus

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Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality.
~John B Larson

Trump sees the world in terms of a zero-sum game. In reality, globalisation, if well managed, is a positive-sum force: America gains if its friends and allies ‒ whether Australia, the E.U., or Mexico ‒ are stronger. But Trump’s approach threatens to turn it into a negative-sum game: America will lose, too.
~Joseph Stiglitz

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.
~William J Clinton

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Grand economic theories rarely last more than a few decades. Some, if they are particularly in tune with technological or political events, may make it to half a century. Beyond that, little short of military force can keep them in place.
~John Ralston Saul

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.
~Steve Forbes

The whole intention of empirical economics is to force theory down to Earth.
~George Akerlof

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The use of threats and intimidation to force energy companies to submit to an extremist agenda may be fitting under a totalitarian regime, but it is never acceptable in the United States.
~John Fleming

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
~B R Ambedkar

Competition, by itself, always leads to cheating by the powerful, who try to establish pyramids of power, like feudalism. Yet, competition is the great creative force! So how do we save it from its own contradictions? By cooperation! By cooperating with each other, via politics, to make rules and prevent cheating, so that competition can thrive!
~David Brin

If we want corporations to act differently, we have to force them to do so through laws that are fully enforced and through penalties higher than the economic benefits of thwarting the laws.
~Robert Reich

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It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic, and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?
~Paddy Chayefsky (in Network)

The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.
~Bernie Sanders

Trade unions are a force for good ‒ a force for a more equal society.
~Jeremy Corbyn

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Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.
~Robert Greene

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
~Orison Swett Marden

Hard work isn’t enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to scale a business is less reliant on brute force. It’s actually one part determination, one part ingenuity, and one part laziness.
~Reid Hoffman

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Speculative markets have always been vulnerable to illusion. But seeing the folly in markets provides no clear advantage in forecasting outcomes, because changes in the force of the illusion are difficult to predict.
~Robert J Shiller

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
~Daniel J Boorstin

It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.
~Kin Hubbard

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I can probably earn more in an hour of writing or even teaching than I could save in a whole week of cooking. Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it undermines any sense of responsibility.
~Michael Pollan

Two hundred years ago, industrialisation ruined the labour force. In the modern age, especially in the West or America, people who are ‘efficient,’ who can bracket their emotions off, tend to win. But at what cost to the rest of us?
~Matt Bellamy

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The longer workers are unemployed, the greater the likelihood that their skills will erode and workers will lose attachment to the labor force, permanently damaging the economy’s dynamism and potential output.
~Jerome Powell

Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two willing parties, neither of whom uses force to work with the other.
~Ben Shapiro

It’s not how many hours you put in with a client or on a project. It’s the quantity and quality of your energy ‒ your focus and force ‒ that determine whether that time is valuable.
~Jim Loehr

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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
~Andre Maurois

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
~Franklin D Roosevelt

Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better.
~Laurie Helgoe

Excellence can be as strong a uniting force as solid vision.
~Azim Premji

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Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.
~P J O’Rourke

The toughest part of the whole damn sport is the X Factor. To me, the X factor is your soul. It’s your courage. It’s your unique driving force. Suppose for a moment that [you] and I were [running]. Suppose that in every possible way‒physical and mental‒we were identical. Which one of us would emerge as the champion?
~Brad Alan Lewis

A rower knows the underlying presence that moves a boat; it is quite simply force and energy. The force needs to be penetrating, and the energy needs to be driving and uninhibited.
~Drew Ginn

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It’s ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
~Mike Tyson

All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and ‘rough’ are not satisfied.
~John Boyle O’Reilly

I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force ‒ never be satisfied with what I’ve done.
~Thierry Henry (soccer)

Baseball is a game based on adversity. It’s a game that’s going to test you repeatedly. It’s going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve.
~Theo Epstein

And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You’re going faster, higher. You’re operating a machine that’s a lot more powerful than you are.
~Duane G Carey

I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They’re very efficient. They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers.
~Sylvia Earle (oceanographer)

My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball.
~Tracy Austin (tennis)

The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.
~Charles Babbage (1791-1871, polymath, father of computers)

My fellow players are sometimes occupying the spaces I want to play in. That forces me to adjust my runs, based on the position of my fellow players. Unfortunately, they’re often playing in my zones. I think that’s a shame
~Robin van Persie (soccer)

Pele featured in the Brazilophile imaginary as the a figure of non-utile excess, a carefree artist in the Nietzschean sense, indifferent to the narrow teleology of winning matches… check the way that most of the endlessly replayed footage we see of Pele is not of him scoring goals, but audaciously missing chances contrived by force of wit.
~Mark Fisher

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If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
~William Hazlitt

In Advance of All Parting is a tough, unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically elegant and inventive, understated and passionate, the poems give us a profound glimpse into how the events of a life can form a center of gravity that fixes the self in its force field. There’s a cold, truth-telling clarity about them that makes them as unsettling as they are beautiful. Ansie Baird has created a richly-drawn world in which this elemental drama plays out, and the result is vivid, startling poems in which pain has left its indelible tracks.
~Chase Twichell

Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest risk-taking of all time in film. I don’t think anything had even seen anything quite like it. The photography was also unlike anything we’d seen. The odd coldness of the filmmaker towards the character reflects his own egomania and power, and yet a powerful empathy for all of them–it’s very interesting. It still holds up, and it’s still shocking. It takes storytelling and throws it up in the air.
~Martin Scorsese

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My monumental netted sculptural environments move through time, animated by an ever-changing ‘wind choreography,’ making invisible air currents suddenly visible to the human eye. I make living, breathing pieces that respond to the forces of nature – wind, light, water.
~Janet Echelman

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Bridges represent archetypal problems. They are artifacts that bring you across or around an obstacle. So they have an unbelievable force.
~Santiago Calatrava

Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always ‒been a highly cooperative enterprise.
~Martin Filler

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.
~Rem Koolhaas

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If you had every color and palette and any size canvas you’d want, it’d kind of feel overwhelming and you wouldn’t make anything particularly inspiring. But I think by restricting yourself, you can kind of force your brain to work in different ways and have a really fun time doing it.
~Olivia Rodrigo

There’s a natural set of constraints with mobile phones that force you to be a better photographer by acknowledging and observing the world around you.
~Kevin Systrom

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
~Edward Steichen

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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It’s the force for progressive social change.
~Andrew Vachss

One of the most troubling things about the term ‘fake news’ is that it has become a force field against accusations you don’t like.
~Kevin Young

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.
~Robert McChesney

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Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation
~Charles Evans Hughes

Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.
~Joseph Pulitzer

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world’s public opinion.
~Elihu Root

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation ‒ a force for construction and destruction.
~Jonathan Haidt

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
~William J Clinton

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
~Ellen Glasgow

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Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?
~Thomas Carlyle

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.
~Herbert Hoover

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We’ve got these stereotypes, and I think there can be some trouble when we force these on people.
~Sam Heughan

If aspects of the person remain undigested-cut off, denied, projected, rejected, indulged, or otherwise unassimilated‒they become the points around which the core forces of greed, hatred and delusion attach themselves.
~Mark Epstein

I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.
~Paul Robeson

To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering ‘I want to be white,’ hidden in the aspirations of his people, to ‘Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro ‒ and beautiful!’
~Langston Hughes

I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.
~Rosa Parks

I don’t think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race. The only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly. We can’t force them to think that way.
~Rosa Parks

I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government ‒ the Kennedy administration at that time ‒ into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen.
~James Meredith (Ole Miss, 1962)

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~Omeleto: Dig Your Own Grave (13:56) forced to…

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Omeleto: Off The Face of The Earth (18:04)

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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
~Ansel Adams

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.
~Wallace Stevens

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
~Larry Niven

All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!
~Saul Bellow

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You can’t sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you’re doing it all by yourself. Obviously, there’s something going on here. And whether you want to call it channeling or being connected to a creative force or knowing your history and knowing where you belong, that’s, you know, maybe a personal thing.
~John Zorn

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
~Ludwig van Beethoven

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When the spirit of child’s play enters into the creative process, it’s a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.
~Joni Mitchell

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
~Oscar Wilde

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
~Samuel Johnson

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Three poets, in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.
The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d;
The next, in majesty; in both the last.
The force of Nature could no further go;
To make a third, she join’d the former two.
~John Dryden

There’s a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
~Harold Pinter

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Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal.
~Brian Tracy

Intensity is the extreme application of force and strength.
~Sunday Adelaja

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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
~Ansel Adams

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
~Max Eastman

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My monumental netted sculptural environments move through time, animated by an ever-changing ‘wind choreography,’ making invisible air currents suddenly visible to the human eye. I make living, breathing pieces that respond to the forces of nature – wind, light, water.
~Janet Echelman

Bridges represent archetypal problems. They are artifacts that bring you across or around an obstacle. So they have an unbelievable force.
~Santiago Calatrava

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Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always ‒been a highly cooperative enterprise.
~Martin Filler

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.
~Rem Koolhaas

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If you had every color and palette and any size canvas you’d want, it’d kind of feel overwhelming and you wouldn’t make anything particularly inspiring. But I think by restricting yourself, you can kind of force your brain to work in different ways and have a really fun time doing it.
~Olivia Rodrigo

There’s a natural set of constraints with mobile phones that force you to be a better photographer by acknowledging and observing the world around you.
~Kevin Systrom

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
~Edward Steichen

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One of the most powerful forces in the world is the will of men and women who believe in themselves, who dare to hope and aim high, who go confidently after the things they want from life.
~Richard DeVos

Sometimes, you just have to go in there and bowl people over with your sheer force of will.
~Jennifer Yuh Nelson

We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.
~Barry White

The one who is truly wise, and who uses the forces and powers with which they are endowed, to them the great universe always opens her treasure house.
~Ralph Waldo Trine

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When you’re rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I’ve talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do.
~Stevie Nicks

Fame is an upshot of what I do. If you’re a successful comedian or actor, then you’re a famous one. But it’s not the driving force. It’s a by-product.
~Ricky Gervais

Money isn’t a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.
~Kevin Costner

When you go out to make something, you want it to be great. You need to put a bubble around that, so no one can get into the force field and change what you’re setting out to make. That’s all us being producers is doing, is allowing our power to protect the integrity of what you’re doing.
~Jonah Hill

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You can always spot a ‘television personality’, even when they aren’t actually on television, because they carry their ‘made-up’ persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.
~Will Self

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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
~Aimee Mullins

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
~James Freeman Clarke

Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.
~Bryant H McGill

It is energy ‒ the central element of which is will ‒ that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
~Samuel Smiles

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
~Les Brown

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The implication that depressed people are fundamentally irresponsible is a deeply damaging and counterproductive one. Winston Churchill was a depressive. He didn’t just fly planes; he was in charge of the Royal Air Force.
~Matt Haig

Being mentally tough is having to battle those demons and push yourself out of your comfort zone and force yourself to be the person that your mind is telling you you aren’t.
~Michael Chiesa

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Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation… Express yourself completely, then keep quiet. Be like the forces of nature… Open yourself to the Tao, then trust your natural responses; and everything will fall into place.
~Laozi

If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.
~Dean Norris

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I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.
~John Coltrane (offering to cry for you with a sax)

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me ‒ like food or water.
~Ray Charles (anatomy of a soul)

You see, rock and roll isn’t a career or hobby ‒ it’s a life force. It’s something very essential.
~The Edge (riffing on a definition as his reason)

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
~Maynard James Keenan (the medium as source of the outlet)

I detest audiences. Not in their individual components but en masse… I think they are a force of evil.
~Glenn Gould (classical pianist, at the sound of a pin drop)

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When we see Rey, we want to hear Rey’s theme, and when the Force is referred to or felt, we want to hear the Force theme, and so on. We hope that these references make sense to the fans and make the aural connections that we want them to have.
~John Williams

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.
~Franz Schubert

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That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.
~Johnny Cash

I get the greatest feeling when I’m singing. It’s other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you’re holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea.
~Cyndi Lauper

If you wanted to torture me, you’d tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.
~Jon Bon Jovi

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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
~Honore de Balzac

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
~Arthur Rimbaud (pre-surrealist)

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
~Swami Sivananda

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
~Andre Malraux

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~Claire Oreskovic: Force of Nature (2:52) a nice song comfortable wearing glasses

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~Janes Addiction: Irresistible Force (4:09) message song featuring lyrics

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~The Irresistible Force: Magic Acid (6:01) sonically pleasant, trippy visuals

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~Art Bodgerd: Bee Gees • I Have Decided To Join The Airforce (2:03) against the wishes of…

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The Lisa Lisa/Cult Jam: All Cried Out • ft Full Force (1:13) about love, go figure

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~Miracle of Sound: Force of Nature (4:07) animated storyline drives the music

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~Van Morrison: Full Force Gale (2:55) hymn disguised as rock ‘n roll

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~Nelly: Air Force Ones (4:55) gettin’ down with some shoes

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~donnyvango: Diana Ross • The Force Behind The Power (4:11) in tribute to…

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~Funkenfryd: Dizzy Gillespie • Tour De Force (13:57) jazz all-stars backing

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~ Àgata “Cosmicgirl” VilàL: Jamiroquai • Use The Force (10:00) energetic concert footage

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~Valuetools: Oasis • Force of Nature (5:04) laid-back concert footage

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… relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.
~Catherynne M Valente

The goal when you get into a relationship is not to be out of the relationship. It’s to try to stay in the relationship. But if it doesn’t work, you can’t force those things.
~Kate Hudson

If I find someone who is suitable, then I will definitely take the relationship ahead, but no one can force me to get married.
~Shehnaaz Gill

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It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripened and blossoms appear in their fragrance and loveliness. And the month when lovers, subject to the same force which reawakens the plants, feel their hearts open again, recall past trysts and past vows, and moments of tenderness, and yearn for a renewal of the magical awareness which is love.
~Thomas Malory

I believe that love between people is the greatest life-giving force in the world. It’s intensely frustrating and inevitably makes a fool of you, but you can’t stop going back to it, and it’s pretty much the defining experience of a human being.
~Sebastian Faulks

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
~Tom Robbins

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Love is the force, the energy that animates creativity and peace in each one of us.
~Salle Merrill Redfield

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.
~George Santayana

Love is simply the human need for one another, how we respond to that need, and how we express it. It remains an active force for hope and the future beyond propagation. Here, it’s a jolly good roll in the sack, back room, left, 20 bob.
~Elihu Bantersnitch

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I think of love as a force of nature‒as strong as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming, as drought-making as it is life-giving.
~Jeanette Winterson

When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges out of the interaction of these two. The third one is the one that is the shared awareness that lies behind the two of them.
~Ram Dass

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Sometimes love is a surprise, an instant of recognition, a sudden gift at a sudden moment that makes everything different from then on. Some people will say that’s not love, that you can’t really love someone you don’t know. But, I’m not so sure. Love doesn’t seem to follow a plan; it’s not a series of steps. It can hit with the force of nature–an earthquake, a tidal wave, a storm of wild relentless energy that is beyond your simple attempts at control.
~Deb Caletti

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible ‒ it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
~Barbara De Angelis

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The people who help us grow toward true self offer unconditional love, neither judging us to be deficient nor trying to force us to change but accepting us exactly as we are. And yet this unconditional love does not lead us to rest on our laurels. Instead, it surrounds us with a charged force field that makes us want to grow from the inside out ‒ a force field that is safe enough to take the risks and endure the failures that growth requires.
~Parker J Palmer

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
~Blaise Pascal

Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex.
~Alexander McQueen

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.
~William J Brennan

The trouble is that sex is a force of nature, and reason is not.
~Ashleigh Brilliant

Chaperons don’t enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.
~Judith Martin

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
~James Baldwin

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As he stared back, he altered…as if a shield slid away from his eyes, revealing a scorching force of will that sucked the air from my lungs. The intense magnetism he exuded grew in strength, becoming a near tangible impression of vibrant and unrelenting power.
~Sylvia Day

It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning.
~Nicole Jordan

The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
~John McDonald

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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
~Oscar Wilde

“Whoa there, Tobias,” says the man to my left. “Weren’t you raised a Stiff? I thought the most you people did was… graze hands or something.” “Then how do you explain all the Abnegation children?” Tobias raises his eyebrows. “They are brought into being by sheer force of will,” the woman on the arm of the chair interjects. “Didn’t you know that, Tobias?” “No, I wasn’t aware.” He grins. “My apologies.
~Veronica Roth

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Love… Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.
~David Seabury

Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
~Thomas Aquinas

Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!
~Suzanne Brockmann

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When someone isn’t ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committing suicide because they’re gay and it’s horrible.
~Ricky Martin

All identity labels are umbrella terms to some degree, but this term ‘bisexual’ is not only serviceable, but it is sufficient. And yes, it brings together a bunch of people who are maybe shades different from one another. And maybe that’s the beauty of labels: that they force you to be with other people and see the difference.
~Charles M Blow

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Music dominates the universe. It is the prime force. It has given shape to space.
~Vangelis

I think love is the greatest force in the universe. It’s shapeless like water. It only takes the shape of things it becomes.
~Guillermo del Toro

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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
~Igor Stravinsky

Love makes no sense at all. But it’s the most powerful and amazing force in the entire universe.
~Glenn Close

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Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.
~Bob Keeshan

Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
~Wally Schirra (astronaut)

Don’t force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It’s the child’s desire to play that matters, not the parent’s desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
~Tiger Woods

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Today, I give my daughter what I really didn’t have as a kid: all the silly, dumb, extravagant, frilly, nonfunctional toys I can force on her. She probably wants an encyclopedia.
~Lenny Bruce

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
~Jim Morrison

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.
~Russell M Nelson

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My family is the engine of everything, and on a personal level, I feel peace, stability, and they give me force, which is reflected on my work, my recordings, and every time that I go out on tour. They are my base, my everything.
~Luis Fonsi

I describe our family as the Transformers. Separately, we can do our own thing, but the minute we start locking in, we become a force to be reckoned with. We become Optimus Prime.
~Gok Wan

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I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.
~Cher

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
~Karl A Menninger

Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
~Thomas J Watson

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
~William Hazlitt

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Might it not be that a great force that has always been thinking in terms of human needs, and that always will think in terms of human needs, has not been mobilized? Is it not possible that the women of the country have something of value to give the nation at this time?
~Jeannette Rankin

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
~Adrienne Rich

My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love.
~Kevyn Aucoin

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This estrogen force field needs to dissipate… Move along. All of you. Now!
~Lauren Kate

If the Republican Party does not learn to understand unmarried women as the political force and potent voting bloc that they have become, we risk becoming the minority party.
~Kellyanne Conway

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The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power.
~Maya Angelou

Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don’t live in the shadows of people’s judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.
~Amitabh Bachchan (Indian actor)

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Charm, which means the power to effect work without employing brute force—is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman’s strength just as strength is a man’s charm
~Havelock Ellis

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
~Dorothy L Sayers

Give us that grand word ‘woman’ once again, and let’s have done with ‘lady’; one’s a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one’s a word for lackeys.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I’m not a woman. I’m a force of nature.
~Courtney Love

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I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn’t work, you can’t force it to.
~Nick Kroll

I’ll get to the force field of this hostility, why it’s there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it’s between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage
~Michael Richards (of Seinfeld)

I’m the one guy who says don’t force the stupid people to be quiet. I want to know who the morons are.
~Mark Cuban

You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.
~William Rotsler

Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.
~Dave Barry

There’s an unseen force which lets birds know when you’ve just washed your car.
~Denis Norden

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction ‒ and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
~Stephen Baker

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Not death but disease is the real enemy; disease, the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.
~Sherwin B Nuland

The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity.
~Kathryn Harrison

If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.
~Mireille Guiliano

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He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to destroy the eyes of the world.
~Erik Erikson

What we know from lab studies is that it’s never too late to break a habit. Habits are malleable throughout your entire life. But we also know that the best way to change a habit is to understand its structure ‒ that once you tell people about the cue and the reward and you force them to recognize what those factors are in a behavior, it becomes much, much easier to change.
~Charles Duhigg

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I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it… . Despite my alienation from myself at that moment, and even though I was nothing but a battleground for invisible forces, I was aware of every detail of what was going on around me.
~Knut Hamsun

It is madness. And if you don’t know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity. It’s the same with self-loathing. You’re probably just normal and normal-looking but that’s not a real identity, not the way ugliness is. Normality, just accepting that you’re probably normal-looking, lacks the force field of self-disgust. If you don’t know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.
~Emma Forrest

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I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.
~Shania Twain

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It’s such a powerful force.
~Danny Boyle

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
~Nikola Tesla

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The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces.
~Rudolf Virchow

In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.
~John Conyer

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© Janet Echelman

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My definition of bad-ass is that I’m a force of nature and true spirit. I’m self-admitting that, and it sounds vain to say that, but I am.
~Idris Elba

I love myself enough‒not in a schmaltzy garbage sense, Hallmark stuff, I’m talking respect myself‒I respect my life-force enough to no longer waste it.
~Caroline Myss

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication ‒ it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness ‒ it is all that I have ‒ and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
~Franz Kafka

I grew up and I kind of took the road of becoming a pilot, which was another dream I had of flying, and once I did attend the air force academy, that dream of flying became more like a project, and I wanted to be a fighter pilot, which I did. I became a fighter pilot.
~Luca Parmitano

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.
~Morgan Freeman

When I was in the Air Force, if I walked into a restaurant, in about eight or nine minutes the M.P.’s would show up and drag me out because someone had called saying that someone was impersonating an officer.
~Melvin Van Peebles (black actor)

I have a fierce temper. I’ve mastered it over the years, but when I’m angry, no one can force me to do anything I don’t want to.
~Lata Mangeshkar (Indian backsinger, western ghost singer)

During the day I force myself to at least eat some salads rather than rubbish, and a steak in the evening. In fact, I eat to basically satisfy my hunger. I hardly have the time to appreciate a meal, and I’m everything, but a gourmet.
~Milla Jovovich

I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
~Wole Soyinka (Nigerian author)

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I’ll develop my radio personality.
~Gracie Allen

I quit working in the police force full time only after I won my third Mr. Olympia.
~Ronnie Coleman

I try to force myself to close my mouth when I put mascara on. I don’t want to be part of the masses!
~Camille Rowe

As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I’ve been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.
~John Travolta

I do a variety of weight-lifting, elliptical glider, stretching exercises, push-ups. And I do the Canadian Air Force exercises almost every day.
~Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
~George Washington

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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
~Virginia Woolf

Based on my experience, it’s considerably difficult to force a donkey into doing something it perceives to be dangerous for whatever reason.
~Maurizio Cattelan

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
~Edmund Burke

Persuasion is often more effective than force.
~Aesop

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
~Colin Powell

It’s amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It’s the thing that saves me.
~J D Vance

Hope is a force of nature. Don’t let anyone tell you different.
~Jim Butcher

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
~Publilius Syrus

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
~Mark Twain

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@Writers Platform:

Reading is a means of thinking with another person’s mind; it forces you to stretch your own.
~Charles Scribner IV

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Jonas. Their rock. Shattered into so many shards. Holding himself together through the sheer force of will.
~Christine Feehan (of a character)

Miles is… Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.
~Lois McMaster Bujold

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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
~Yehuda Berg

Sometimes I would write while inspired and sometimes I would write through sheer force of will, and in revision the writing that I thought was “dead” very frequently turned out to be better because it was more free of ego.
~Jesse Michaels

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
~Roald Dahl

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Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal.
~Brian Tracy

Intensity is the extreme application of force and strength.
~Sunday Adelaja

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Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write about something or somebody you know about ‒ something that you feel deeply and passionately about. Never try and force it.
~Michael Morpurgo

Trying to force creativity is never good.
~Sarah McLachlan

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Crime novels have a clear beginning, middle, and end: a mystery, its investigation, and its resolution. The reader expects events to play out logically and efficiently, and these expectations force the writer to spend a good deal of time working on macrostructure rather than prettifying individual sentences.
~Jesse Kellerman

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.
~Mary Oliver

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn’t know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.
~David Whyte

If it’s great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It’s a positive force.
~Manuel Puig (Argentine author)

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The school-boy doesn’t force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.
~Hermann Ebbinghaus

Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take advantage of this power as an engine for quality. When students themselves are in charge of projects that they care about, peer pressure can become a powerful force for high standards.
~Sandy Berger

America’s competitive advantage lies in its human talent. All of us should be doing everything we can to cultivate and develop our work force.
~Elaine Chao

The right tends to posit that the market fuels social good. The left tends to posit that the government fuels social good. At bottom, democracy claims that citizens drive social good, but there is currently no container for a political force-field that stakes claim to the unbelievable resources now virtually untapped in every man, woman, and child in our society.
~Marianne Williamson

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
~Robert Fulghum

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How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
~Arthur Conan Doyle

Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies, or in the safety of the woods, prayers are being repeated, as they have for thousands of years, and common people with uncommon courage and the whispers of their ancestors in their ears continue their struggles to protect the land and water and trees on which their very existence is based. And like small tributaries joining together to form a mighty river, their force and power grows.
~Winona LaDuke

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Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous.
~Kent Conrad

Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders ‒ companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.
~Ma Jun

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Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of them come together through the majestic force of nature, they can screw up a whole city.
~Betty White

Water is the driving force of all nature.
~Leonardo da Vinci

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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering‒that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man’s good.
~Sprague de Camp

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.
~Nikola Tesla

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The mountains seem to have conquered us long before we set foot on them, and they will remain long after our brief existence. This indomitable force of the mountains gives us humans a blank canvas on which to paint the drive of discovery and, in the process, test the limits of human performance.
~Conrad Anker

There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.
~Derek Walcott

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But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is also necessary for his psychical life to place the soul of the child in contact with creation.
~Maria Montessori

Nature has always had more force than education.
~Voltaire

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
~Jacob Bronowski

Giving in to the forces of low ambition would be an act of climate appeasement. This is our Munich moment.
~Chris Huhne (climate change expert, negotiator)

Mankind’s ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves
~George Soros

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What the human being sees, what is poured into his environment, becomes a force in him. In accordance with it, he forms himself.
~Rudolf Steiner

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
~Karl Marx

The fact that natural-law theorists derive from the very nature of man a fixed structure of law independent of time and place, or of habit or authority or group norms, makes that law a mighty force for radical change.
~Murray Rothbard

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise… purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
~Jacques Ellul

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
~Bertrand Russell

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Prewritten Prompt: force

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A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.
~Fred Hoyle (astronomer)

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
~Max Planck

The spirit of humanity, like the forces of nature, and like the physical life, is at bottom energy…. Spiritual life, therefore, is just as much a development out of what has gone before in the evolutionary process as physical life is; which means that the origin of spiritual life is from within.
~John H Dietrich

There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
~Wayne Dyer

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I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moon beams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in it’s grasp.
~Ernest Holmes

It is necessary to be occupied almost all the time, to have your mind focused; otherwise, you get very spaced out. There are many variant psychic forces and powers that roam through the worlds. You can pick them up.
~Frederick Lenz (American Buddhist)

I really haven’t been trying to force or shoot outside of my comfort zone.
~J John Collins (religious scholar)

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A willing heart is the first step in finding God’s will in our lives. We cannot expect God to force us or to plead with us about the calling in our lives.
~David Jeremiah

Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It only invites. … There is a war between good and
~Michael O’Brien

If you would, please, note how Mr O’Brien’s statement ends. ~Ed Note

The Tao never acts with force, yet there is nothing that it can not do.
~Laozi

He alone knows to whom He will reveal Himself under which form. By what path and in what manner He attracts any particular man to Himself with great force is incomprehensible to the human intellect. The Path differs indeed for different pilgrims.
~Anandamayi Ma

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These are the times when God is heard in rolling thunder, when the earth trembles and the treetops bend under the force of [God’s] voice. It is not given to men [and women] to make God speak. It is only given to them to live and to think in such a way that, if God’s thunder should come, they will not have stopped their ears.
~Peter L Berger

I don’t force things. I can have a wish, and then I let God lead me on the path, bringing me what I need ‒ and always trying to be alert to receive it.
~Rosalia

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You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.
~Henry Moore

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Consider what it takes for successful businessmen and businesswomen, effective entrepreneurs and hardworking associates, shrewd retirees and idealistic students to combine forces with a creative pastor to grow a “successful church” today. Clearly, it doesn’t require the power of God to draw a crowd in our culture. A few key elements that we can manufacture will suffice.
~David Platt

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism… to ward off threats to her own security and influence.
~Bernadette Devlin

Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.
~Girolamo Savonarola

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I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at the base of a majestic beech: “Statues are hewn by fools like me: only God could make this tree.” The Taoists looked at the inside of the tree. They saw God present, not as the super-sculptor, but as the primal force from which the tree drew its being and its specific form. Becoming aware of this divine origin was for them “great knowledge,” to be distinguished from the “small knowledge” of our petty, every-day existence.
~John Wijngaards

My parents are pretty religious, devout, but did they force it on me? No, I don’t think so. I still think of myself as a Lutheran, just one who doesn’t go to church.
~Kristen Schaal

There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
~Dick Gregory

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There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.
~Billy Graham

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man’s inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself ‒ a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
~Eric Butterworth

Evil is just the school we attend before entering God’s greater creation. Evil as a force in the cause of wisdom serves that purpose. If God is God of all, as you suppose him, then his plan has no competition.
~author unknown

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The perfect knowledge of events cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, since all prophetic inspiration receives its prime motivating force from God the creator, then from good fortune and nature.
~Nostradamus

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‘evolver,’ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.
~Shane Claiborne

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When you meditate or pray… both are forms of meditation… you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God’s gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.
~Erin Gray

Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want you, need you: the belief in you and love and mankind.
~Sylvia Plath (gas oven, self-applied, @30)

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I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
~Quentin Crisp

God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.
~Yehuda Berg

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I won’t say that I’m an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know… but I’m not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.
~B F Skinner

I believe in a higher force that is within me.
~Tobey Maguire

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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
~Thomas A Edison (1847-1931)

We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the philosopher to deny phenomena simply because they are inexplicable at the present state of our knowledge. The more difficult it is to acknowledge their existence, the greater the care with which we must study these phenomena.
~Pierre-Simon Laplace

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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
~Isaac Newton

Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature from the phenomena of motions and then to demonstrate the other phenomena from these forces.
~Isaac Newton

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Every force field is simultaneously a field of information because even physics now acknowledges that an atom is not only a hierarchy of different states of energy, or different states of force fields.
~Deepak Chopra

Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.
~Frederick Soddy

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The force fields of nature are force fields of consciousness. They are force fields of knowledge.
~Deepak Chopra

The whole force-field of Light rests on unity
~Kenneth G Mills

Normally I object to strangers beaming force fields into my brain.
~Mary Roach

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Remember ‒ you can’t beam through a force field. So, don’t try it.
~William Shatner (Star Trek)

A force field is basically an invisible shield. You push a button and all of a sudden a bubble forms around you which is impenetrable. It can stop bullets, it can stop ray gun blasts and we realized force fields are actually a little bit difficult to create.
~Michio Kaku (theoretical physicist)

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It would be great if we had our own personal force fields. Just imagine creating your own architecture in your room. Buildings. You wouldn’t have to spend all that time saving your money for that second house. You’d simply push a button and have as many houses as you want.
~Michio Kaku

3D worlds exist where these conditions currently apply: There.com, as an instance.
~Ed Note

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I’m finding myself very comfortable talking to medical audiences, and proving to them that underlying the material fields of the universe are force fields.
~Deepak Chopra

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.
~Friedrich List

The polynomial xn−1 is a force of nature.
~Roman Abramovich

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
~John Boyd Orr

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Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.
~Egon Friedell

Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the forces which make it work‒ of the principles which relate his gadgets to the forces of nature, to the universal order. It is not central heating which makes his existence ‘unnatural,’ but his refusal to take an interest in the principles behind it. By being entirely dependent on science, yet closing his mind to it, he leads the life of an urban barbarian.
~Arthur Koestler

I can probably earn more in an hour of writing or even teaching than I could save in a whole week of cooking. Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it undermines any sense of responsibility.
~Michael Pollan

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For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species‒ us‒ is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature
~David Suzuki

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature
~Al Gore

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We share deep admiration for evolution, a force of Nature that has led to the finest chemistry of all time, and to all living things on this planet.
~Frances Arnold

Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
~John Morley

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I’ve led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?
~Buzz Aldrin

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
~Aaron Klug

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.
~Paul Nurse

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We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will.
~Michael Chertoff

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.
~Anna C Brackett

Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.
~Erwin Chargaff (Soylent Green?)

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Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.
~Jacques Ellul

Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.
~Peter Drucker

For me, it matters that we drive technology as an equalizing force, as an enabler for everyone around the world. Which is why I do want Google to see, push, and invest more in making sure computing is more accessible, connectivity is more accessible.
~Sundar Pichai

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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
~Alan Kay

When in doubt, use brute force.
~Ken Thompson (computer engineer)

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There will soon be streams of data coming from all manner of products ‒ appliances, clothing, sporting goods, you name it. Wouldn’t you rather live in a world where you can export the data from your son’s football helmet to a new app that monitors force and impact against a cohort of high school players around the country?
~John Battelle

More than 500 million years ago, vision became the primary driving force of evolution’s ‘big bang’, the Cambrian Explosion, which resulted in explosive speciation of the animal kingdom. 500 million years later, AI technology is at the verge of changing the landscape of how humans live, work, communicate,and shape our environment.
~Fei-Fei Li

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§ The Exercise:

judgment

If it could be required,
but one thing
of everyone,
forced on mankind
one and all:
a hip-side pad and pen
for those one-time
priceless overhauls
passing thoughts
gems of reason
cheap excuses
come and gone
golden coins of life that count,
one’s own book of life
to hold that final Court in thrall

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5s ‘n 7s

thinkers not wearing blinders
finders not wearing filters
worriers as warriors
featured in some future time
as force fields against failure

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force is a farce and what’s worse
effects of the farce are a curse
from home and hearth to a hearse
florid tales, torrid stories
for glory, love or the purse

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round of hounds chasing rabbits
life-long creatures of habit
force of nature they have it
dreamed of futures they crave it
cash in the world we inhabit

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can’t force a friendship
talkin’ with pooches you don’t
just being yourself

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.
~Albert Einstein

The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.
~Dave Barry

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It was through the Second World War that most of us suddenly appreciated for the first time the power of man’s concentrated efforts to understand and control the forces of nature. We were appalled by what we saw.
~Vannevar Bush

Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one another to the last man. They know this, and hence comes a large part of their current unrest, their unhappiness and their mood of anxiety.
~Sigmund Freud

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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
~Ivan Turgenev

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
~Aesop

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Weight, force and casual impulse [choice], together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.
~Leonardo da Vinci

The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.
~Swami Vivekananda

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I’d like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I’ve tried to meditate, but it’s really hard for me to stay still. I’d like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can’t shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.
~Ellen DeGeneres

Introspection, or ‘sitting in the silence,’ is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
~Paramahansa Yogananda

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There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
~Arnold Bennett

Science and religion are not antagonists. On the contrary, they are sisters. While science tries to learn more about the creation, religion tries to better understand the Creator. While through science man tries to harness the forces of nature around him, through religion he tries to harness the force of nature within him.
~Wernher von Braun

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
~George Herbert

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
~William Penn

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Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.
~Ernst Thalmann (German Communist)

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.
~Charles L Allen (American columnist)

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No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.
~Helen Keller

The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it. It is his own thoughts, his own actions, that rob him of it.
~Sri Chinmoy

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Sometimes I feel like a human pin cushion. Every painful emotion hits me with ridiculously exaggerated force. And the anxiety feels like hands inside of me, squeezing my guts really hard.
~Juliana Hatfield

Following your feelings will lead you to their source. Only through emotions can you encounter the force field of your own soul.
~Gary Zukav

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Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle.
~Bill Phillips

Obstacles do not appear in your way in order to stop you. Rather, they appear in order to strengthen and hone you and your plans. They are not your enemy. They are your secret ally, but only if you treat them as friendly forces of nature.
~Anodea Judith

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The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
~Bill Gates

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
~Jawaharlal Nehru

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Beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others’ “fads” through the greed of getting supporters. Your Âtman is the support of the universe ‒ whose support do you stand in need of? Wait with patience and love and strength; if helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.
~Swami Vivekananda

This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
~George Bernard Shaw

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I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.
~John Cleese

Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.
~Logan Pearsall Smith

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Kindness works simply and perseveringly; it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working; strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.
~Albert Schweitzer

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.
~Lawrence G Lovasik

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The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can’t even comprehend it. It’s such an illusion, it’s such a strange thing.
~Anthony Hopkins

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don’t find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
~James M Barrie

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Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.
~Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
~Alfred North Whitehead

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For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.
~Bridget Riley

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.
~Immanuel Kant

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Like looking through a telescope into the Milky Way and wondering if we’re alone in the universe, it made me realize with the glaring clarity of desert light how scarce and delicate life is, how insignificant we are compared with the forces of nature and the dimensions of space.
~Aron Ralston

I’d like to think humans have a stronger sense of justice than the random forces of nature do.
~Dan Wells

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The Olio’s Quote Harvest
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The Salmagundi Video Harvest
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