Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION: sense :: nonsense

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Quoted In The Grove:
Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction. In fiction, all threads tie together in a neat bow and everything moves smoothly from one point to the next to the next. In real life, though… nothing makes sense. Bad things happen to good people. The pious die young while the wicked live until old age. War, famine, pestilence, death all occur randomly and senselessly and leave us more often than not scratching our heads and hurling the question ‘why?’ into a void that provides no answers.
~Peter David

The more sophisticated we become ‒ as we pierce reality and see the void beyond ‒ the more our sense of wonder is destroyed, along with our reasons for being.
~Eric Maisel

I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.
~David Lynch

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What’s interesting is, if you take the scientists and the theologians, the really good ones, they end up both filled with this wide-eyed sense of wonder and awe about look at this world we live in.
~Rob Bell

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People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
~Ken Kesey (author)

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
~Isabel Allende (writer)

I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other’s sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.
~Patricia Arquette (actor)

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Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
~Mark Van Doren

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.
~Bob Newhart

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
~Jacob Riis

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
~H Jackson Brown, Jr

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
~Jim Rohn

Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.
~Zig Ziglar

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Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.
~Eva Moskowitz

Success isn’t based on ‘look what I can do!’ but more on an inner sense of self and believing you have something to say in your own consistent way. And I think we all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform.
~Ralph Lauren

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
~Charles Churchill

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Common sense is calculation applied to life.
~Henri Frederic Amiel

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
~Harriet Beecher Stowe

Just as you should never confuse the law with common justice, intelligence should not be confused with common sense. Some of the brightest people in the world have no idea how to cross the road.
~Terry Wogan

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I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be ‒ instead of the tawdry, lousy fouled-up mess it is.
~Robert A Heinlein

The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.
~Samuel Beckett

Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.
~Terry Pratchett

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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Someone bent on suicide won’t have much sense of humor left.
~Chuck Palahniuk

You’ve got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.
~Lance Bass

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To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
~Baron d’Holbach

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
~Elon Musk

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
~Isaac Asimov

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Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.
~Joan Halifax

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.
~Frans de Waal

The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
~Samuel Smiles

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Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect ‒ but maybe the universe doesn’t insist on cause and effect.
~Edward M Lerner

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
~Frank Herbert

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
~Jessamyn West

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
~Douglas Coupland

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.
~John Zorn (composer)

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I imagined Kandinsky’s mind, spread out all over the world, and then gathered together. Everyone having only a piece of the puzzle. Only in a show like this could you see the complete picture, stack the pieces up, hold them to the light, see how it all fit together. It made me hopeful, like someday my life would make sense too, if I could just hold all the pieces together at the same time.
~Janet Fitch

It’s a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you’re prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.
~Margaret Atwood

I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?
~Scarlett Thomas

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There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. Laying blame is so easy. I don’t have time for hate or negativity in my life. There’s no room for it.
~Reese Witherspoon

Calvin: Look, a dead bird!
Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window.
Calvin: Isn’t it beautiful? It’s so delicate. Sighhh… once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is. You realize that nature is ruthless and our existence is very fragile, temporary, and precious. But to go on with your daily affairs, you can’t really think about that… which is probably why everyone takes the world for granted and why we act so thoughtlessly. It’s very confusing. I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up.
Hobbes: No doubt.
~Bill Watterson

Sometimes he thinks that if he could only trace the path of his life carefully enough, everything would become clear. The ways that he screwed up would make sense. He closes his eyes tightly. His life wasn’t always a mistake, he thinks, and he breathes uncertainly for awhile, trying to find a pathway into unconsciousness, into sleep.
~Dan Chaon

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All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.
~Piers Anthony

I certainly have had experiences of a sense of wonder at the world and a feeling that even though it could all be explained rationally, it still feels that there is more to it.
~Garth Nix

Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in.
~William P Young

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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all.
~Nikolai Gogol

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
~Carl Jung

There’s plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.
~Cassandra Clare

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I’m self-opinionated and I have a sense of self.
~Paul Eenhoorn (actor)

Oh Lord, give us a sense of humor with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the pomps, the vanities, the sense of self-importance of the Big Fellows that the world sometimes sends among us, and who try to take our peace away.
~Sean O’Casey

I just started to see the world as it really is and it completely shocked me and changed my opinion on everything.. on life and my values and certainly my own sense of self.
~Angelina Jolie

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Common sense hides shame.
~Gaelic Proverb

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
~Sophocles

A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
~Proverb

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If one’s sense of self is obtained through the eyes of another it is always subject to being lost.
~Brenda Shoshanna

When we get our sense of self from only one place, when something goes wrong and the inevitable happens, it can crush you emotionally, spiritually and physically. So it’s important not to believe you are defined by one place, one relationship or one thing, and to find ways to keep your sense of self strong.
~Kat Cole

It occurred to me, then, how nearly real life resembles the first rehearsal of a play. We are all of us stumbling through it, doing our best to say the proper lines and make the proper moves, but not quite comfortable yet in the parts we’ve been given. Still, like players who trust that ‒despite all evidence to the contrary‒ the whole mess will make sense eventually, we keep on going, hoping that somehow things will work out for the best.
~Gary L Blackwood

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Nobody listens anymore. I can’t talk to the walls because they’re yelling at me, I can’t talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it’ll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.
~Ray Bradbury

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
~Octavio Paz

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.
~Kate Atkinson

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Posted From The Grove

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren’t so apparent from the ground.
~Sonny Perdue

Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.
~Giuseppe Mazzini

That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.
~Jeff Miller

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.
~Barbara Jordan

If you didn’t have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
~James Carville

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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
~Bertrand Russell (British)

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
~Robertson Davies (Canadian)

I have met with some of them ‒ very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
~Giacomo Casanova

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Remember a few years ago when Congress declared that the sauce on a slice of pizza should count as a vegetable in school lunches? You don’t have to be a nutritionist to know that this doesn’t make much sense.
~Michelle Obama

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we’d have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
~William J Clinton

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Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.
~Harry S Truman

My dad has a dry, deadpan sense of humor, and my mom has an unexpected, wacky take on things. They really encouraged laughing at ourselves and the weirdness of situations that come up growing up in politics.
~Kristin Gore

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The SEC got more than 100 rules to write under Dodd-Frank, the lion’s share of all the agencies. And we’ve moved, I think, with a tremendous sense of urgency. But it takes a long time to write rules and get them approved by a five-member commission.
~Mary Schapiro

Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.
~Laurence Gonzales

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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
~Alfred Adler

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
~Dalai Lama

The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense of self-respect have no need for freedom.
~Frank Chodorov

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
~Frank Herbert

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
~Aeschylus

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The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
~Franklin D Roosevelt

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
~Buddha

Nonsense remains nonsense, even when spoken by famous scientists.
~John Lennox

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space.
~Leon Foucault

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Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.
~Helen Keller

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.
~Salman Khurshid

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.
~Margaret J Wheatley

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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Many Palestinians have been living for decades in camps, disconnected from the environment in which they grew up, wallowing in poverty, in neglect, alienation, bitterness, and a deep, unrelenting sense of humiliation.
~Ehud Olmert (ex-PM, Israel)

Confidence alone does not make peace, but acknowledging rights and confidence do. Failure to recognize these rights creates a sense of injustice; it keeps the embers burning under the ashes.
~Yasser Arafat

There is no alternative to peace. There is no sense to go to war.
~Shimon Peres (ex-PM, Israel)

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
~Carl Jung

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Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.
~Thomas Jefferson

When the code of laws is once fixed, it should be observed in the literal sense, and nothing more is left to the judge than to determine whether an action is or is not conformable to the written law.
~Cesare Beccaria

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
~John Mortimer

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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

If it doen’t make sense, you should find for the defense.
~Johnnie Cochran

I believe in people. Human beings, deep down, are essentially good. Any jury can filter through whatever bull might be thrown their way and use common sense to get to the truth of a case. Juries make the right decisions, almost unfailingly, because people know right from wrong.
~Kimberly Guilfoyle

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
~Karl Marx

I know this is economic jargon, but essentially, if you bring more women to the job market, you create value, it makes economic sense, and growth is improved. There are countries where it’s almost a no-brainer: Korea, Japan, soon to be China, certainly Germany, Italy. Why? Because they have an aging population.
~Christine Lagarde

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
~H L Mencken

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
~Ron Paul

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Never give in ‒ never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
~Winston Churchill

If we don’t stop somewhere, if we don’t accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don’t learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice ‒ if we don’t learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.
~Amos Oz

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
~Dean Acheson

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.’
~Barack Obama

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Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.
~Adam Carolla

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there’s poverty; there’s political repression; there’s gender apartheid ‒ there’s a sense of culture loss; there’s religious fanaticism.
~Lawrence Wright

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.
~Noam Chomsky

Beyond institutional amnesia, a rejection of causal analysis is the existential rock on which American Exceptionalism sits. The United States unique sense of itself depends on an ambiguous relationship to the past. History is affirmed, since it is America’s unprecedented historical success that justifies the exceptionalism.
~Greg Grandin

‘Freedom’ means a lot to conservatives, but they have such a narrow sense of what it means. They think a lot about freedom from ‒ freedom from government, freedom from regulation ‒ and precious little about freedom to. Freedom to is absolutely something that has to be safeguarded by good government, just as it could be impaired by bad government.
~Pete Buttigieg

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If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and ‘with malice toward none and charity for all’ go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.
~Henry A Wallace

The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to.
~George Papandreou

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Personal power gives you a sense of accomplishment. It enables you to live fully and zestfully. It provides you with a mature reason for liking yourself better. To state it another way, it is the mark of a healthy and well-adjusted individual to seek self-advancement by mastering his human relations.
~Vernon Howard

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
~Eric Hoffer

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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
~Ronald Reagan

When Governor Romney was out here, I told him, I said, ‘we are following the formula of streamlining regulations, being job creating friendly, balancing budgets, cutting taxes, and, you know, using common sense. And if you get to be president, we are going to do more of that.’
~John Kasich

The left has come to regard common sense ‒ the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community ‒ as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
~Christopher Lasch

I’m not a libertarian in the sense that I think all these social programs should be abolished in any sense.
~Pat Buchanan

It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.
~Bernie Sanders

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I’m against genocide. I’m against fascism. I’m willing to fight against them so that, in that sense, I think one can still be committed to justice and committed to peace but recognize the circumstances under which one does have to fight.
~Cornel West

We’ve lost our sense of outrage, our anger, and our grief about what’s going on in our culture right now, what’s going on in our country, the atrocities that are being committed in our names around the world. They’ve gone missing; these feelings have gone missing.
~Chris Jordan

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Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That’s what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.
~Bobby Seale

As an organizer, I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be ‒ it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system.
~Saul Alinsky

What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.
~John Lewis

We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.
~Jack Kerouac

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
~Dwight D Eisenhower

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
~James Reston

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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
~Aristophanes

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
~Montesquieu

My definition, a definition in the drill books from the time that General Von Steuben wrote the regulations for General George Washington, the definition of the object of military training is success in battle… It wouldn’t be any sense to have a military organization on the backs of the American taxpayers with any other definition.
~Chesty Puller

They say military have the so-called ‘secret intelligence ‒ this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I’ve never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.
~Ozzy Osbourne

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What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it’s been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.
~John Hersey

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
~Errol Morris

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The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.
~Elliott Abrams

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.
~Janet Suzman

What we grieve for is not the loss of a grand vision, but rather the loss of common things, events and gestures…. ordinariness is the most precious thing we struggle for, what the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto fought for. Not noble causes or abstract theories. But the right to go on living with a sense of purpose and a sense of self-worth–an ordinary life.
~Irena Klepfisz

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I wasn’t shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.
~Tyler, The Creator

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.
~Martin Luther King, Jr

I knew racial discrimination at its worst in the 1930s. I lived with the humility of it but I never lost my sense of humor. Humor is the escape valve from the deadly reality of adversity.
~Nipsey Russell

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
~James Baldwin

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There’s something different about growing up black and Muslim, especially in New Jersey. It’s like when I left the mosque and I left my dad, I felt unprotected, but I also felt a weird sense of pride, like I was involved in this other way of living that was cool to me.
~SZA

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
~W E B Du Bois

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Today’s Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
~Thurgood Marshall

It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.
~Stokely Carmichael

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I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.
~Benjamin Banneker

To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world. Black people. And I mean that in every sense.
~Nina Simone

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Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of events to make sense of her complicity. We all are, I suppose. Trying to invent our version of the story. All human odes are essentially one, “My life; what I stole from history, and how I live with it.
~Barbara Kingsolver

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
~Stephen Hawking

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Everything’s a story, kid. Stories are what help us make sense of the world.
~Jeff Daniels

History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn’t make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn’t fit. And often that is quite a lot.
~Paul Murray

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I wrote about World War II because I didn’t understand it. I think that’s the reason that historians are drawn to any subject ‒ there’s something about it that doesn’t make sense. I wanted to work my way through what happened slowly, and look at everything in the order in which it took place.
~Nicholson Baker

I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way. History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind. That’s too harsh, or too self-righteous: none of us sees history fully
~Garth Greenwell

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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you’re on the front lines.
~Carl Hiaasen

It is important for people to be able to read all sides of every question; for a feeling of national unity does not come from one-sided or inadequate information, but from a sense of freedom impartially secured and of opportunity equalized by a just government.
~Jeannette Rankin

The privilege of talking and publishing nonsense is necessary in a free state; but the more sparingly we make use of it, the better.
~Coleridge

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~TED-Ed: Alexandra Horowitz ‒ How to master your sense of smell (4:33)

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~Bright Side: The World Through the Eyes of Animals (4:21)

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~Tamborine Man Tales: Leonard Cohen Asked Dylan to Play Piano (12:33) the sense of an artist, a narration

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A man’s sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.
~John Gray

When you have a sense of calling, whether it’s to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn’t just a casual choice, it’s a divine calling.
~Charles Swindoll

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
~Margaret Thatcher

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.
~Patrick Lencioni

Work hard, use your common sense and don’t be afraid to trust your instincts.
~Fred L Turner (McDonald’s)

Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms.
~Travis Bradberry

The hard thing is not to reach the top of the mountain but to stay there. That phrase makes a lot of sense, certainly to me. It is the hardest bit because you always have people who want to reach there for the first time. You can never let them have more will than you.
~Diogo Jota

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A mentor is someone with a willingness to help others, who has a capacity to inspire, a determination to work hard, a clear sense of vision, an inspiring purpose, a deep sense of integrity and an appreciation for joy.
~Kerry Kennedy

I believe that working with good people matters because then the work environment is good. If there is a sense of respect and belief among the people you work with, that is when good work is done.
~Ranbir Kapoor

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
~John Ruskin

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The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents.
~Michio Kaku

We live in a disposable, ‘cast-off and throw-away’ society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.
~Myles Munroe

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An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.
~William Feather

When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.
~Allen Klein

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I don’t know all that I’m searching for, but I just have this sense of desperation and urgency within me all the time that I just have to keep going.
~Caleb Plant (WBA)

If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.
~Frederick Lenz

There’s no sense in going to a tournament if you don’t believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change.
~Tiger Woods

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The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.
~John D Voelker

A man who risks his life in shooting big game in order to secure good specimens for natural history collections, or to rid a district of a man-eater or other dangerous neighbor, is a sportsman in the true sense.
~Robert Baden-Powell

A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn’t geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It’s a drawing; it’s a mechanical reality.
~Marcel Duchamp

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Messi or Ronaldo? I put them on the same level. I don’t prefer one over the other. They are monsters in every sense of the word, and I could not choose neither this, nor that. I think they are very different.
~Dani Carvajal

When people repeatedly hit me, I would feel a sense of unfairness.
~Ronaldo (soccer)

It is a nonsense, it is a waste of resources and it is a silly way for any person to make their point, political or otherwise.
~Shane Connelly (hockey)

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I’d never played on a team until high school. It gave me a sense of belonging, a focus, and helped build my confidence. I liked the feeling of accomplishment and the respect. Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.
~Howie Long

Camaraderie doesn’t happen by accident; developing a strong sense of trust, accountability, and togetherness around team goals requires intentional effort.
~Don Yaeger

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I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.
~Pat Summitt

I’ve always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.
~Andrew Young

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Nothing jazzes me up like football. I’ve acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn’t make sense.
~John Madden

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it’s time for me to move away from the game.
~Michael Jordan

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I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.
~Virat Kohli (cricket)

The uneven bars make me especially nervous because when you stop training, you lose sense of where the bar is going to be.
~Sunisa Lee

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When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.
~N R Narayana Murthy

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.
~Wilma Rudolph

Over the years, I’ve given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
~Steve Prefontaine

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I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you’re doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you’re trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.
~Phil Jackson

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
~Robert Jarvik

Great men of action… never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.
~Oswald Mosley

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
~Dwight D Eisenhower

The most fearless hearts, the audacious dreamers, have always maintained a sense of optimism that often flies in the face of the available evidence.
~Martin O’Malley

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
~Walter Lippmann

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
~Proverb

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Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us.
~James Robertson

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top ‒ or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.
~Richard M Nixon

“The future is there,” Cayce hears herself say, “looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.”
~William Gibson

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
~Henry Ward Beecher

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“Is,” “is,” “is” — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don’t know what anything “is”; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.
~Robert Anton Wilson

Going home is not necessarily a wonderful experience. It always comes with a sense of loss and makes you so conscious of the inexorable passage of time.
~W G Sebald

My secret to staying young… Having no sense of time.
~Steven Wright

Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?
~Stephen LaBerge

When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.
~Menachem Mendel Schneerson

I remember being young in the 1960s… we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.
~Bernardo Bertolucci

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§ VIDEO:

I’d sort of acquired somewhat more mature perspective on what my career is and I don’t…not anymore…consider fame and fortune my career. I’m not a star. I’m an actor. So in a way, what I want to do as an actor, I would consider good for my career. Does that make sense?
~Christoph Waltz

That is another reason this transition for me into soaps makes sense for me, because I would get to work at my craft every day. I would be able to play this very real character.
~Darius McCrary

I’m not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren’t straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
~Sylvester Stallone

I’ve got an overly developed sense of what selling out is, and I of course worry about it too much.
~Martin Freeman (of Sherlock)

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There’s no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.
~Colin Trevorrow (director, producer, screenwriter)

Movies don’t look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody’s character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it’s creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn’t mean I know how to fix them.
~Nancy Meyers

There’s a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything’s against you; there’s no time, and even less money ‒ you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it’s thrilling.
~Eric Stoltz

Any jokes I make I try to make sure it’s on story and helps the characters and makes sense with the movie.
~Aziz Ansari

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I think of setting as almost a character of its own, influencing the other characters in ways they’re not even aware of. So much of the success of a good ghost story rides on creating a creepy atmosphere; details of the landscape itself can help create a sense of dread.
~Jennifer McMahon

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
~Federico Fellini

It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp.
~Jordan Peterson

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.
~Jonas Salk (polio vaccine)

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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
~Thornton Wilder

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.
~Vivien Leigh

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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
~Simone de Beauvoir

Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.
~Prince Philip

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.
~Malcolm Gladwell

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Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.
~Frederick Lenz

Help publicly. Help privately. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help science to solve and faith to soothe. Help, and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.
~Tom Hanks

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.
~Anthony J D’Angelo

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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I’m not a social person that wants to go to parties.
~Gautam Adani

It’s the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.
~Vint Cerf

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Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people.
~Atul Gawande

I’m not a religious person, and I’m not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.
~Ian MacKaye

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People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
~Thomas Mann

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.
~Henry Louis Gates

The evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
~Albert Schweitzer

The more normal it gets for people to see people of a gender or skin tone they wouldn’t expect in jobs that they wouldn’t expect, or speaking a way they wouldn’t expect them to, the more it cultivates a sense that we share more than separates us.
~Kelly McCreary

You don’t ask people about the immigration policies of the U.K. or their country’s agricultural policy. Instead, you talk to them about the meal they’re eating or their family, and from that you get the sense of another human being, someone we can all relate to.
~Michael Palin

A few good words don’t just make your day but they also give the sense of belonging and confidence to take the next big step forward.
~Ravi Shastri

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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
~Bertrand Russell

Philosophy is common sense with big words.
~James Madison

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.
~Alfred North Whitehead

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told and have a sense of humor doing it.
~Criss Jami

My philosophy is: If you can’t have fun, there’s no sense in doing it.
~Paul Walker

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Common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
~Leonardo da Vinci

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.
~Richard Powers

Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.
~Rebecca Solnit

Six senses keeping
Five around a sense of self
~Dave Matthews

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
~Immanuel Kant

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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
~Ray Bradbury

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.
~Bob Marley

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
~Noam Chomsky

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but above all try something.
~Franklin D Roosevelt

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.
~Marquis de Lafayette

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~Comedy Filmmaker: Cul de Sac (12:00) familiar feel of family without the futility, but a question remains

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~Fuzzy Logic Pictures: Cul-de-Sac (14:32) more cerebral, begins sedately, appetizer to a larger meal?

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~Kailas Prasannan: Jalebi (9:44) when tasty is messy, extracting the moment

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When people are deprived of a sense, their other senses get heightened. If you’re culturally devoid of something ‒ of weather, of artistry, of interesting architecture, all the way down the line to culture itself ‒ you’re either forced to give in and get that car dealership, or you manufacture those things for yourself.
~Tim Burton

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to respect for each other and carelessness is personally offensive.
~Jonathan Ive

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Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga is love. Manga is kitsch. Manga is sense of wonder. Manga is … there is no conclusion yet.
~Osamu Tezuka (of Japanese comic books/graphic novels)

Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don’t have with words.
~Marjane Satrapi (graphic novelist)

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All art is political in the sense that it serves someone’s politics.
~August Wilson

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
~Erica Jong

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I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.
~James Cameron

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
~Giorgio de Chirico

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To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
~Maria Montessori

I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.
~Yo-Yo Ma

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The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
~Pablo Picasso

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
~Matthew Arnold

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.
~Jean Houston

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When you’re talking about Tim Burton, you’re talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It’s like he’s got his own genre.
~Jackie Earle Haley

I have very little fashion sense, and to tell you the truth, I give it very little thought. I dress to be as comfortable as I possibly can. Most of my clothing is either black, grey, or dark blue, and I don’t really wear a lot of colours. But I do like jackets. I have a little bit of an obsession with them.
~Leonardo DiCaprio

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that’s beautiful.
~Rashida Jones

The way you have decided to present yourself to others can telegraph your character, it can signal modesty, respect for others, a sense of order. Fashion can subtly communicate a set of value systems before you open your mouth.
~Rick Owens

I’m always jealous of Johnny Depp’s sense of style, but if I tried to get away with a floppy hat and waistcoat, I’d look like a homeless person.
~Stephen Merchant

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
~Lionel Trilling

We know the seductive alchemy of art. To transform private anguish into a narrative of truth, if not ; to make sense where there was none; to bring order out of chaos ‒ these are the promises art makes.
~Kathryn Harrison

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A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.
~Rowan Williams

Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.
~Publilius Syrus

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Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things‒whether health or a car or an old sense of self‒has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.
~Lance Armstrong

In a spiritual sense, a positive attitude may help you get through chemotherapy and surgery and radiation and what have you. But a positive mental attitude does not cure cancer ‒ any more than a negative mental attitude causes cancer.
~Siddhartha Mukherjee

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.
~Teri Garr

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.
~Andrew Solomon

You wake up every morning with a smile on your face because you’ve got a new day you never expected to have. And there’s a sense of wonderment. Nothing short of magical.
~Dick Cheney

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Narcissism is not about self love. It’s a clinical trait that belies a deep sense of emptiness, low self-esteem, emotional detachment, self-loathing, extreme problems with intimacy.
~Drew Pinsky

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
~Alice James

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Being a caregiver requires infinite patience, physical and emotional strength, health care navigation skills, and a sense of humor ‒ which can be hard to come by after sleepless nights and demanding days.
~Rosalynn Carter

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
~Bo Burnham

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.
~Leonard Cohen

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I don’t get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there’s no sense in getting upset. And I don’t get upset over things I can’t control, because if I can’t control them there’s no sense in getting upset.
~Mickey Rivers

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
~Wayne Dyer

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Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.
~Edmund Hillary (Mt Everest)

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
~Horatio Nelson (Brit Admiral, strategic thinker)

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
~Clive James

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The first step towards true enlightenment is to lighten up on yourself.
~Bashar (channeled by Darryl Anka)

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
~W Somerset Maugham

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don’t need an analyst.
~Joan Crawford

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What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
~Sigmund Freud

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
~Hannah Arendt

Don’t wish me happiness ‒ I don’t expect to be happy it’s gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor ‒ I will need them all.
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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§ MUSIC:

Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.
~Michael Franti

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
~Thom Yorke

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May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.
~James Joseph Sylvester

I’d been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it’s environmental, without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this ‘ambient music.’ But at the same time I was trying to make visual art become more like music, in that it changed the way that music changes.
~Brian Eno

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There are some concerns that are universal. Everyone wants to be loved, and everyone wants to feel like they belong somewhere in the world. Everyone wants to do something and feel like they have a sense of purpose. These are just the things that I think about and the things that make their way into my songwriting.
~Tracy Chapman

With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I’m relating to them something that’s quite personal.
~Enya

I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that’s all you’ve got, it’s just boring. Everything I write, whether it’s happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.
~Katy Perry

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I’m not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I’ve never had that attitude to music.
~Harrison Birtwistle (composer)

I always want to write erotic music… Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense ‒ about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe… about life.
~Toru Takemitsu

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I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that’s not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter. The conductor would just rip into me, and it lasted for years.
~Damien Chazelle (filmmaker)

I don’t have synesthesia, but I think when music is really intense, it’s almost like it’s more than just hearing. If you’re at a gig, and there’s just something amazing going on, it’s not really just hearing: it’s more of a total body sense, isn’t it? You get transported, and all your senses kind of join up.
~Max Richter (composer/pianist)

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Photographs don’t ‘reveal’ much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make sense of the world and direct our attention to certain things around us. In other words, they help us learn how to see.
~Trevor Paglen

In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
~Ansel Adams

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The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.
~Maxfield Parrish

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
~Yves Tanguy

I like to use light as a material, but my medium is actually perception. I want you to sense yourself sensing ‒ to see yourself seeing.
~James Turrell

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I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.
~Thomas Heatherwick

I didn’t even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford ‒ apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn’t out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I’d left university.
~Alan Bennett

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don’t do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.
~Paul Rand

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era ‒ it’s a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.
~Clement Mok

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To attack a man for talking nonsense is like finding your mortal enemy drowning in a swamp and jumping in after him with a knife.
~Sir Karl Popper

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.
~Nick Harkaway

There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.
~Shakti Gawain

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
~Euripides

We’re not blind and we’re not fools. We’re just plain sensible people who refuse to be fooled by a lot of supernatural nonsense.
~Eric Taylor

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Because you can’t argue with all the fools in the world. It’s easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they’re not paying attention.
~Christopher Paolini

Be wise enough to walk away from the nonsense around you.
~Joel Osteen

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Talking nonsense is man’s only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

I find that nonsense, at times, is singularly refreshing.
~Talleyrand

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.
~Dr Seuss

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Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.
~Arthur Frederick Saunders

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
~Gelett Burgess

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To write or talk concerning any subject, without having to previously take the pains to understand it, is a breach of duty which we owe to ourselves, though it may be no offense against the laws of the land.
~Coleridge

He who talks incessantly talks nonsense.
~Ivory Coast

I love to talk about nothing. It’s the only thing I know anything about.
~Oscar Wilde

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
~Tom Stoppard

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our ‘sense’ than we would care to believe.
~David Bohm

If you want sense, you’ll have to make it yourself.
~Norton Juster

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We’re living in such a fantasy world where nothing makes sense anymore.
~Glenn Beck

Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.
~Tom Hodgkinson

It makes sense to me that the polyglot wouldn’t know what language he dreamed in.
~James Arthur

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You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading ’em right. But you know your life doesn’t depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore.
~Jim Thompson

To demand ‘sense’ is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.
~Ayn Rand

Nothing makes sense, why should I?
~Suad Amiry

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One man’s nonsense is another man’s sense.
~Peter Cameron

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.
~Vladimir Nabokov

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Don’t talk to me about a man’s being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
~William Pitt

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
~George Santayana

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
~John Kenneth Galbraith (economist)

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
~Roald Dahl

Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.
~Albert Einstein

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Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
~George Bernard Shaw

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.
~Josh Billings

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
~An Wang

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Common sense is the genius of humanity.
~Goethe

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Common sense is not so common.
~Voltaire

Common sense is very uncommon.
~Horace Greeley

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
~Frank Lloyd Wright

What is common sense isn’t common practice.
~Stephen Covey

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Common sense is the ability to see things as they are without prejudice and do things as they ought to be done without influence of any kind.
~Josh Billings

The truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
~Thomas H Huxley

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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
~Ed Howe

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
~Julian Casablancas

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing…
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
~Gertrude Stein

When unsure how to solve a problem, use your common sense.
~Catherine Pulsifer

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
~Sam Rayburn

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work second, stick-to-itiveness third common sense.
~Thomas A Edison

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~Lightning Seeds: Sense (4:01) the reason for everything? …just because

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~egidio sabbdini: XTC • Senses Working Overtime (4:38) extending to extremes and all in between

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~Victor Peres: Husker Du • Makes No Sense At All (4:08) life, generally

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~MICO: Senses (2:43) self-absorbed, unrequited love

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~Wollhall Films: Van Morrison • A Sense of Wonder (5:54) the leaves of autumn

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~Charlie Chaplin: Nonsense Song (3:27) physical comedy to a silly song

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~GPITRAL2: The World • Sense of Purpose (5:21) addressed to his people, or his woman uncertain ‒ message the same

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~Maoli: Sense of Purpose (3:05) intensity is goal of the game in sport

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~Jazmmine Sullivan: Come To Your Senses (from tick, tick… BOOM! (4:00)
Broadway in 4 minutes

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~LeAnn Rimes: Nothing About Love (2:58) bemoaning senseless love in a picnic / carnival setting

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~Cannon Films: M:G • No Sense of Reason (3:40) love’s competition, a dance partner

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~Justin Bieber: No Sense (2:45) choreography, in lieu of love

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~SteVEVO: Sting • I Was Brought To My Senses (3:27) 1996 rehearsal footage

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~MsDesperado30: HIM • Foreboding Sense Of Impending Happiness (3:14) Glam rock

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Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.
~Danny McBride

When a chick has a sense of humor, there’s nothing more attractive.
~Dylan O’Brien

I like guys with a sense of humor who smile a lot and are kind.
~Nikki Glaser

I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her ‒ that melts my heart.
~Gerard Butler

I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke.
~Jason Statham

I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.
~Nicole Appleton

I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent ‒ a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident ‒ that is very sexy ‒ but at the same time, he’s very kind to people.
~Nicole Scherzinger

We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others’ needs at some level or other.
~Ram Dass

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If gender is eradicated, so too is an important domain of pleasure for many people. And others have a strong sense of self bound up with their genders, so to get rid of gender would be to shatter their self-hood.
~Judith Butler

There are many types of emotional abuse but most is done in an attempt to control or subjugate another person. Emotional abuse is like brainwashing in that it systematically wears away at the victim’s self-confidence, sense of self, trust in her perceptions and self-concept.
~Beverly Engel

And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends have been evasive about it, at the time.
~Margaret Atwood

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Most, if not all, problems brought to therapists are issues of love. It makes sense that the cure is also love.
~Thomas Moore

We go into a relationship looking for love, not realizing that we must bring love with us. We must bring a strong sense of self and purpose into a relationship. We must bring a sense of value, of who we are. We must bring an excitement about ourselves, our lives, and the vision we have for these two essential elements.
~Iyanla Vanzant

To love in any way is to be like a child—it means to be vulnerable, to be wide-eyed, to be selfless. There is no such thing as free love; love is the most costly expression in the world. To love romantically is to give of oneself fully and completely, a merging and meshing of souls so that the twain become a unity. It is to allow the sense of wonder to fully enrapture.
~Ted Dekker

I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment ‒ if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes ‒ everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.
~Hozier

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.
~Brene Brown

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
~e e cummings

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Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There’s immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
~Nick Cave

When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.
~Andrew Cohen

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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
~Madame de Stael

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
~Marianne Williamson

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I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don’t think people are ready for the message that I’m delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.
~Charlie Sheen

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It’s all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.
~Mike Tyson

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Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.
~Patti Stanger

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I think it’s important to have closure in any relationship that ends ‒ from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.
~Jennifer Aniston

Love is love, even in its platonic, unromantic sense. Once you have that connection between two people, the only thing that gets in the way is circumstance, history, what each person has gone through.
~Adrian Lester

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
~Mortimer Adler

Love is not just tolerance. It’s not just distant appreciation. It’s a warm sense of, ‘I am enjoying the fact that you are you.’
~N T Wright

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The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections.
~Louise Erdrich

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

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Given Freudian assumptions about the nature of children and the biological predestination of mothers, it is unthinkable for mothers voluntarily to leave their babies in others’ care, without guilt about the baby’s well-being and a sense of self-deprivation. Mothers need their babies for their own mental health, and babies need their mothers for their mental health–a reciprocal and symbiotic relationship.
~Sandra Scarr

Growing up with my mum, often I’d be the only person at home. She would spend a lot of time talking to me. She treated me almost like an adult; she used to get mildly rebuked by my dad and my grandad for that. But she gave me a degree of responsibility beyond my years; my own sense of agency and even my self-confidence, I get from her.
~Wes Streeting

Motherhood ‒ no matter if you’re a working mom or stay at home mom ‒ is really tough sometimes. It can really leave us each day with a sense of wondering if we’re doing it right. You know, it’s a long term investment. You don’t see big returns in the short term. Raising a child can easily pull you into being hyper-focused on the tough everyday moments of life.
~Lysa TerKeurst

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
~Erich Fromm

I think I got a lot of my ‘funny’ DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous.
~Christopher Buckley

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Deep down, my mom [Cher] had long suspected I was gay… Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.
~Chaz Bono

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.
~Robert Neelly Bellah

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The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family’s relationship with each other.
~Mika Brzezinski

No matter what circumstances, it’s hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.
~Anne Lamott

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I think a lot of people also have kids to reclaim thу innocence and experience it over again. I think it’s about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.
~Mamie Gummer

My parents made no money whatsoever, but they really knew how to see, as artists. So a big adventure might be, on a hot, dreadful day with no place to go, to go out and draw our chickens with pastels. My parents gave me a sense of wonder.
~Ali MacGraw

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In the household in which I was raised, the themes were pretty simple. ‘Work hard. Don’t quit. Be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful. Also, never whine, never complain. And always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.’
~Michael Keaton

I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.
~Jeff Bridges

My dad is and was very funny and had a really dry sense of humor, which, as a kid, seemed un-fun. But in retrospect, it’s kind of hilarious.
~John Mulaney

My dad has a dry, deadpan sense of humor, and my mom has an unexpected, wacky take on things. They really encouraged laughing at ourselves and the weirdness of situations that come up growing up in politics.
~Kristin Gore

My humour is a mix of my parents’. I get the chatty, anecdotal stuff from my dad and the filth from my mam, Valerie. She has a very dark sense of humour, I think from having grown up with disabilities. It’s a coping mechanism. She had polio when she was eight and has been in a wheelchair for about 20 years.
~Sarah Millican

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
~Ralph Fiennes

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So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
~Haniel Long

By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin.
~Augustus Y Napier

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My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn’t bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.
~Warwick Davis (short of stature actor)

It was my father who instilled the “never say no” attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.
~Marlee Matlin (deaf actress)

One of my fondest memories from childhood is of looking at a globe with my father. “What’s the biggest country?” he’d ask me and my sister. We’d spin the globe around and guess. . . . The globe brought me a sense of wonder and adventure. I wanted to go to those other places and see how people did things differently. And, many years later, when I did visit other countries, I took my father’s interest and fascination with me. When we plant the seeds of fascination and respect for other people, we are teaching tolerance and peace.
~Charlotte Sophia Kasl

We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.
~Paul Tsongas

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We certainly noted that when given the opportunity, women handle money more efficiently. They have long term vision, they manage money more carefully. Men are more callous with money. Their first reflex is to blow it by getting drunk in a pub, or on prostitutes or gambling. Women, on the other hand, are endowed with a tremendous sense of self-sacrifice and try to get the best out of the money, for their children, but also for their husbands.
~Warren Buffett

For most women being other-directed, focused on how other people feel and nurturing them, was (and can still be) a quality that girls were (are) heavily pressured to become. The unselfish or Self-less woman was (is) seen as ideal. The realization and articulation that the cultural ideal of the perfect woman was someone who had no sense of Self and was a key part of the angry energy that drove Feminism to its swift success.
~Judith M Bardwick

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A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself, and is happy in what she is doing. She is a person who has a sense of self ‒ it all comes down to a freedom of choice.
~Betty Ford

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
~Susan B Anthony

I think it’s very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.
~Georgina Chapman

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I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence.
~Pierce Brosnan

‘The Museum of Innocence‘ is not about politics; it’s a love story, but I think it’s political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
~Orhan Pamuk

Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. there is no need to explain or make sense of it. just trust what you feel.
~Sonia Choquette

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All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
~Paulo Coelho

I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way. Sense of humor is definitely important. And sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins. Sunglasses and a great pair of heels can turn most outfits around.
~Victoria Beckham

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I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.
~Michael J Fox

The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning ‒ it’s a man or a woman without a sense of humor.
~Jonathan Winters

I don’t happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don’t know what’s funny about a character… This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
~Wallace Shawn

I don’t understand how somebody wouldn’t have a sense of humor about themselves.
~John Malkovich

If I had a sense of humor, I’d be laughing right now.
~Christine Feehan

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A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
~Hugh Sidey

Everybody I know who is funny, it’s in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don’t like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
~Carol Burnett

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
~Max Eastman

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
~Jennifer Jones

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
~Mignon McLaughlin

Sometimes the best cure for life’s woes is a sense of humor.
~Frank Sonnenberg

It’s good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.
~Margaret Cho

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
~Thomas W Higginson

The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor.
~Richard Bach

Most preachers say the nature of God is unknowable, but I’m certain of one thing at least. God almighty has a sense of humor.
~Robert Ferrigno

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Life doesn’t make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy’s job is to point out that it doesn’t make sense, and that it doesn’t make much difference anyway.
~Eric Idle

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
~Frank A Clark

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
~Sid Caesar

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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
~E B White

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
~Bob Hope

The need to eat, sleep and dry out plays havoc with your sense of wonder.
~Michael Palin

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
~W C Fields

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We all didn’t come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don’t leave it at the same time.
~Lurlene McDaniel

I’m not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense of having failed to live out the will of God can give rise to depression. Certainly the fear of death and what might follow can sap the joy out of life.
~Tony Campolo

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Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.
~Pier Paolo Pasolini

In the face of death, especially violent death, things don’t make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form or psychological form. And when a form dissolves, always something shines through that had been obscured by the form. This is the formless One Life, the formless One Consciousness.
~Eckhart Tolle

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It’s the continuation of everyone’s childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they’re gone from this world. It’s terrible.
~Lucien Bouchard

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.
~Elizabeth Gaskell

Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died…He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at having to observe a ritual no one else he knew followed, in honor of people he had seen only a few times in his life…Now, sitting together at the kitchen table at six-thirty every evening, his father’s chair empty, this meatless meal is the only thing that seems to make sense.
~Jhumpa Lahiri

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All children, are born with the disposition to make sense of their experiences.
~Lilian Katz

Who you are and what you know when you are born is everything that you need to know to thrive. You are born with a sense of self and a sense of wanting self to feel good and the mechanisms to bring it about.
~Esther Hicks

Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous.
~Annie Dillard

The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man ‒ the sense of wonder.
~Anais Nin

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
~Albert Einstein

He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it.
~Proverb

The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.
~Gail Sheehy

To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child’s sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think because I did become a well-known face in my thirties and not in my twenties, I was pretty settled in my boots and I knew who I was. And I think there’s a sort of Scottish thing, too, where you don’t take yourself too seriously, and you don’t get carried away with your own sense of self-importance.
~Ashley Jensen

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It’s a new stage and a new moment in my life. I’m moving forward. It feels quite inspiring, fun, and positive. As I get older, I find a greater sense of self-confidence. I’ve learned that it’s fine to not try to be anything else but myself.
~Jessica Biel

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.
~Diane Keaton

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Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable ‒ but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being ‘alone’: You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I’m talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age.
~Amy Tan

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The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.
~Roald Dahl

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
~Graham Greene

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I think something about high school students being snobby about how much they have or don’t have is particularly absurd because it’s not theirs. It’s their parents’. So to feel quite good about yourself because you’ve got the fancy house and car doesn’t make any sense ‒ you didn’t earn any of that.
~Greta Gerwig

Juvenile justice is probably the area that’s most ripe for reform, in the nice liberal sense of the word, simply because there’s no getting around the fact that a teenage brain is not an adult brain.
~Robert Sapolsky

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I hope I can always hold on to a sense of youth.
~Laufey

With age comes common sense and wisdom.
~Nas

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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
~F Scott Fitzgerald

At 35, I’m definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There’s nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that ‒ and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it’s going to feel stiff.
~Drew Barrymore

As I’m never going to be old, I’m glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.
~Douglas Coupland (author/artist)

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you’re staring into the grave.
~Frank McCourt

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Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us.
~James Robertson

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top ‒ or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.
~Richard M Nixon

“The future is there,” Cayce hears herself say, “looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.”
~William Gibson

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“Is,” “is,” “is” — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don’t know what anything “is”; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.
~Robert Anton Wilson

Going home is not necessarily a wonderful experience. It always comes with a sense of loss and makes you so conscious of the inexorable passage of time.
~W G Sebald

My secret to staying young… Having no sense of time.
~Steven Wright

Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?
~Stephen LaBerge

When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.
~Menachem Mendel Schneerson

I remember being young in the 1960s… we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.
~Bernardo Bertolucci

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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
~Vaclav Havel

The most important thing, in anything you do, is always trying your hardest, because even if you try your hardest and it’s not as good as you’d hoped, you still have that sense of not letting yourself down.
~Tom Holland

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
~Norman Cousins

To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.
~George Ripley (Unitarian Transcendentalist)

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Honorable Mentions

Honorable Mentions are sometimes caught in the snare of a theme word’s online source page. Most are turned loose in Worgrove’s catch-and-release program, but some captures of thought are of sufficient value, too good and useful to abandon.

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The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.
~Shannon L Alder

No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
~Ashanti Proverb

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.
Stephen Chbosky

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
~Arthur C Clarke

Something that seems funny when it happens to someone else, may not seem so funny when it happens to us.
~Will Rogers

You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.
~Tina Rey

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
~William Blake

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
~GK Chesterton

To recognize bullshit, nose is better than ear.
~Toba Beta

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
~Horace Walpole

You can speak with a twang and still not say a thang.
~Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
~Simone de Beauvoir

Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.
~Prince Philip

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.
~Malcolm Gladwell

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At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could’ve taken. I don’t think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder.
~Ben Gibbard

I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don’t know while you’re in the process of improvising your life.
~William Bolcom

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I’m an idiot, basically. I don’t think that I’m a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I’m like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.
~Bill Burr

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
~Robert Frost

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When I was starting out, I would get printouts of what was being written about me that week. At first it was all good things, and then it started to turn. I very quickly learned, “This isn’t good, this isn’t helping me.” But it was a very important exercise for me in terms of really understanding that one’s sense of self is internal.
~Gwyneth Paltrow

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.
~Gwyneth Paltrow

I’m not like a gearhead in the sense that I’m not all that useful under the hood, but I am a, I would say, a gear enthusiast. I love to drive anything; I love to drive cars I’m not good at driving with crazy shifters.
~Josh Gates (Expedition Unknown series)

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.
~Kobe Bryant

Why did I want to break all the rules? Because the rules didn’t make sense, that’s why.
~Madonna Ciccone

I never learned all the things you’re not supposed to do; I just do what makes the most sense.
~David Carson

I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.
~Wilbur Wright

I think I’m very easily inspired. People, wildlife, nature, music, art. I think that I’m lucky that I have this great sense of wonderment about life in general.
~Jorja Fox

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.
~Michael Hall

My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings. And a favorite book as a child? Growing up, it was ‘The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe’ – I would read the whole C.S. Lewis series out loud to my kids. I was once reading to Zelda, and she said ‘don’t do any voices. Just read it as yourself.’ So I did, I just read it straight, and she said ‘that’s better.’
~Robin Williams

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I’ve learned over the years that identity has a whole lot less to do with location or other people’s expectations than with your own sense of self and self-confidence.
~Deval Patrick

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind ‒ in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.
~Eckhart Tolle

Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks
~Erving Goffman

We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a reflection of the solidification of one’s sense of self.
~Frederick Lenz

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.
~Julia Alvarez

A well-developed sense of self is a necessary if not sufficient condition of your well-being. Its presence does not guarantee fulfillment, but its absence guarantees some measure of anxiety, frustration, or despair.
~Nathaniel Branden

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It’s funny—when people call you “shy,” they usually smile. Like it’s cute, some funny little habit you’ll grow out of when you’re older, like the gaps in your grin when your baby teeth fall out. If they knew how it felt—really being shy, not just unsure at first—they wouldn’t smile. Not if they knew how the feeling knots up your stomach or makes your palms sweat or robs you of the ability to say anything that makes sense. It’s not cute at all.
~Claudia Gray

Insecurity refers to a profound sense of self-doubt‒a deep feeling of uncertainty about our basic worth and our place in the world. Insecurity is associated with chronic self-consciousness, along with a chronic lack of confidence in ourselves and anxiety about our relationships. The insecure man or woman lives in constant fear of rejection and a deep uncertainty about whether his or her own feelings and desires are legitimate.
~Beth Moore

Healing from our past is an essential aspect of expanding our sense of self and awakening our capacity to love. This shift often manifests as a change in the questions we’ve been asking ourselves. Instead of What do I need? we ask, How can I serve? Instead of What am I getting out of this? we start to ask, What can I bring to this situation to promote the highest possible outcome for everyone involved?
~David Simon

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Sometimes in life, we try to do our very best to help others, and in the process, it brings some anguish to us. But we can’t ever let that stop us. We can’t ever be stopped from helping others and allowing them to have some sense of happiness and joy in their life.
~Jon Huntsman, Sr

Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.
~Frederick Lenz

Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.
~Stephen Chbosky

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One of the strongest signs of being in the zone is a sense of freedom and of authenticity. When we are doing something that we love and are naturally good at, we are much more likely to feel centered in our true sense of self ‒ to be who we feel we truly are. When we are in our Element, we feel we are doing what we are meant to be doing and being who we’re meant to be.
~Ken Robinson

We can step out of our small sense of self and awaken to this reality. One of the reasons people get confused about freedom, enlightenment, and liberation is because this awakened consciousness has different facets or different dimensions, a bit like a crystal. If you hold this luminous crystal up to the light and turn it, it will take a beam of white light and refract it into the many colors of the spectrum.
~Jack Kornfield

The more expanded your sense of self, the more possibilities are released from the level of the soul.
~Deepak Chopra

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Through being “right”, you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.
~Eckhart Tolle

When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.
~Rumi

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It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.
~Sally Field

We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from an honorable and open heart accepting what is true. Do we want to remain stuck? Or to release the fearful sense of self and rest kindly where we are?
~Jack Kornfield

The word “surrender” is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will use it in a different way. Surrendering means letting go of your resistance to the total openness of who you are. It means giving up the tension of the little vortex you believe yourself to be and realizing the deep power of the ocean you truly are. It means to open with no boundaries, emotional or physical, so you ease wide beyond any limiting sense of self you might have.
~David Deida

[SRF] seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that’s my job. It’s no one else’s.
~Mariel Hemingway

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Each one of you has created a sense of self. That’s what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.
~Frederick Lenz

There are those who receive as birthright an adequate or at least unquestioned sense of self and those who set out to reinvent themselves, for survival or for satisfaction, and travel far. Some people inherit values and practices as a house they inhabit; some of us have to burn down that house, find our own ground, build from scratch, even as a psychological metamorphosis.
~Rebecca Solnit

You need to rebel to see the other options and to get a much richer, fuller sense of the world. And it’s only once you’ve worked through that and seen through that that you can come back and accept who you are. You have to try all the other options.
~Pico Iyer

Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you’re in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that’s the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else.
~Angelina Jolie

Perhaps the most important vision of all is develop a sense of self, a sense of your own destiny, a sense of unique mission and role in life.
~Stephen Covey

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@Writers Platform:

When you just get fantasy stories that are about fairies or goblins, I just don’t care. I’m never going to meet a goblin, it doesn’t mean anything to me. So my definition of fantasy is very broad, it’s anything to do with memory, or dreams, or ways of interpreting or making sense of the world.
~Dave McKean

As I walk back to the school on my own, I realise I’m crying. So I go back to the stories I’ve read about the five and I try to make sense of their lives because in making sense of theirs, I may understand mine.
~Melina Marchetta (teen novelist)

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.
~Nick Earls

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The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness.
~John Cheever

Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.
~Yuval Noah Harari

Many things make the ideal magazine story . But one thing is that it calls attention to the reader to something that they never would have imagined being interested in. And you leave them with a sense of wonder. I have to think more about this.
~Ron Rosenbaum

A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.
~Neil Gaiman

There’s a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
~Tobias Wolff

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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I’m talking about a writer’s critics, who don’t address what you’ve written, but want to probe into your existence and magnify the trivia of your life without any sense of humor, without any sense of context.
~Wole Soyinka

Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there’s the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.
~J K Rowling

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Satire is fascinating stuff. It’s deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it’s the only thing that makes any sense.
~Ben Nicholson

I have another aspect of my career where I’m a scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and I’ll say that when you study Yiddish literature, you know a whole lot about forgotten writers. Most of the books on my shelves were literally saved from the garbage. I am sort of very aware of what it means to be a forgotten artist in that sense.
~Dara Horn (novelist, essayist)

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.
~Norton Juster

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Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
~Jacques Maritain

Why should poetry have to make sense?
~Charlie Chaplin

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
~James Joyce

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I don’t think you can define how you acquire your imagination any more than you can define why one person has a sense of humor and another doesn’t. But I certainly would lean to the side that says all those solitary hours of daydreaming were a kind of training for poetry.
~James Tate

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one’s own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing.
~Seamus Heaney

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The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.
~Coretta Scott King

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
~J Irwin Miller

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations‒ something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.
~Katherine Paterson

We are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use things and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.
~Bernie Siegel

Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced, and there must be an intense belief in it.
~Peter Thiel

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From a young age I had a real sense of the world of work. This is what vocational education gives you.
~Steph McGovern

The benefits of prison education go beyond lowering recidivism rates and increasing post-release employment. It can also rekindle a sense of purpose and confidence.
~Clint Smith

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
~A P J Abdul Kalam

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First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.
~Richard P Feynman

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
~Victor Hugo

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
~Robert Green

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
~Christian Nestell Bovee

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don’t always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
~Caroline Kennedy

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One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.
~Ella Maillart

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There’s a real purity in New Zealand that doesn’t exist in the states. It’s actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It’s a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.
~Elijah Wood

I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we’ve confronted these things we’ve been able to talk them through, and I’m sure we will with this issue as well.
~Michael King

Everything I’ve ever thought about doing has been, in some sense, about helping people.
~Jacinda Ardern (ex-PM, NZ)

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A crowded ferry ride away from Tanzania’s coastal city, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar is a marvel for the senses. Every sight and smell is provocative, inspiring a sense of the old and new.
~Jodi Balfour

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
~William Butler Yeats

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The Reader Writes
This will be a new feature in upcoming issues, such is the hope.

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CALVIN: This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn’t make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery? If the guy exists why doesn’t he ever show himself and prove it? And if he doesn’t exist what’s the meaning of all this? HOBBES: I dunno. Isn’t this a religious holiday?
CALVIN: Yeah, but actually, I’ve got the same questions about God.
~Bill Watterson

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I wasn’t brought up with any religion at all. At school and in my early 20s, I read every religious text I could get my hands on ‒ Buddhist scriptures, Hindu texts, the Qur’an, and the Bible. I wanted to feel like something made sense to me, that there was something sacred I could feel aligned with.
~Jennifer Connelly

There’s a big part of me that’s atheist. There’s a big part of me that’s agnostic. And there’s a big part of me that tends towards the mystic. The thing that I find is most important in all of that is to retain my sense of wonder and the idea that I don’t actually know what’s going to happen.
~Vanessa Veselka

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
~Rick Warren

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.
~Bill Gates

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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
~George Washington

With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.
~Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship is marked by a sense of wonder. We stand before the God we know and love as a friend, the vastness of his creation, and the beauty of our Christian faith.
~Pope Benedict XVI

He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly behaved as if He was the party chiefly concerned, the person chiefly offended in all offenses. This makes sense only if He really was God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin.
~C S Lewis

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.
~Moses Mendelssohn

There is a very beautiful expression in the Hebrew language that’s borrowed from spoken Torah… ‘All is predicted, and permission is given at any point to change anything.’ I think I live by this idiom in the sense that there is always a goal; there is always something to look forward to in life and my creative search, and that goal is there.
~Neri Oxman

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
~Gottfried Leibniz

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Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
~Christopher Hitchens

Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what is awe-inspiring, what is frightening, what moves us to great wonder, and so on. That is the religious impulse, and it is part of our psychological makeup — of everyone’s psychological makeup.
~Philip Pullman

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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
~Galileo Galilei

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
~Samuel Butler

This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being ‒ der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the Deity ‒ a Superior Intelligence, the Lord of all Creation and Natural Law.
~Abdus Salam

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If you’re a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don’t make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
~Andrew Young

How frightful a thing it is for the preacher when he becomes accustomed to his work, when his sense of wonder departs, when he gets used to the unusual, when he loses his solemn fear in the presence of the High and Holy One; when, to put it bluntly, he gets a little bored with God and heavenly things.
~Aiden Wilson Tozer

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The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God’s plan seems like it doesn’t make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.
~Allyson Felix

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
~George Seaton

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
~Martin Luther

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
~Gregory Peck

Belief and trust in the power of the Cosmos gives even the most chaotic life a new sense of order and purpose.
~Noel Edmonds

Unfortunately, many young believers ‒ and some older ones, too ‒ do not know that there will be times in every person’s life when circumstances don’t add up ‒ when God doesn’t appear to make sense. This aspect of the Christian faith is not well advertised.
~James Dobson

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The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
~Lord Byron

Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my ‒ conscience.
~Max Stirner

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I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.
~Rainn Wilson

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
~Bill Cosby

I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.
~Anne Lamott

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Nonsense is an assertion of man’s spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.
~Aldous Huxley

Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
~Thomas Huxley

We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense.
~Hermann Bondi

Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience.
~Carl Sagan

I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most of the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as “night-walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers.” But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer universe, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder.
~Carl Sagan

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There’s no sense in being precise when you don’t even know what you’re talking about.
~John von Neumann (mathematician)

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String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe the universe is consistent, and therefore I do believe that general relativity and quantum mechanics should be put together in a manner that makes sense.
~Brian Greene

In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail’s eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one’s head about.
~Loren Eiseley

Most of man’s problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
~Frances Perkins

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We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied. At the interior of our cells, driving them, providing the oxidative energy that sends us out for the improvement of each shining day, are the mitochondria, and in a strict sense they are not ours.
~Lewis Thomas

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.
~Carl Sagan

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Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!
~Comte de Lautreamont

I think maths is the root of everything. If we understood every area of math, it would lead to improving our sense of science, physics, engineering, space travel… all those great things. Maths is a backbone for it.
~Matt Haig

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
~John McCarthy

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Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
~Theodosius Dobzhansky

Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy, geology, biology, and anthropology.
~Theodosius Dobzhansky

I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God’s, or Nature’s method of creation. Creation is not an event that happened in 4004 BC; it is a process that began some 10 billion years ago and is still under way.
~Theodosius Dobzhansky

It’s always a tough call deciding whether, as a scientist, you should argue publicly with the creationists. It’s a dilemma that I encounter frequently in another subject area: Does it make sense to bandy words with someone from the UFO community?
~Seth Shostak

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In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
~J Robert Oppenheimer (of the A-bomb crowd)

By refocusing our space program on Mars for America’s future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it’s time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.
~Buzz Aldrin

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The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. ‘Who, what, where, why, when, and how!’ They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.
~Sylvia Earle

We are not overpopulated in an absolute sense; we’ve got the technology for 10 billion, probably 15 billion people, to live on this planet and live good lives. What we haven’t done is developed our technology.
~David Attenborough

Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how we sense physical reality.
~Ken Goldberg

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.
~Murray Gell-Mann (Butterfly Effect)

Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we’re all trying to understand the world around us.
~Roderick MacKinnon

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The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge.
~Albert Einstein

When we believe we have all the answers, we are not open to mystery. To begin a mystical journey, you have to start with a sense of wonder, of not knowing where you are going or how you will travel.
~Mary Pope Osborne

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.
~Nikola Tesla

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
~Anais Nin

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The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
~Steve Ballmer

The cell phone has become the adult’s transitional object, replacing the toddler’s teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.
~Margaret Heffernan

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There is a lot of work out there to take people out of the loop in things like medical diagnosis. But if you are taking humans out of the loop, you are in danger of ending up with a very cold form of AI that really has no sense of human interest, human emotions, or human values.
~Louis B Rosenberg

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
~Vernor Vinge

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.
~Mark Zuckerberg

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
~Erik Erikson

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The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we’re so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of inhumanity, and there is a coarseness, a coarsening of interaction.
~Steven Bochco

In the good old days when there was no social media and no mobile phones, when you were forced to actually physically meet someone and you often mixed in the same social groups, there was a sense of accountability about things.
~Ulrika Jonsson

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Nature’s beauty never fails to fill me with a sense of wonder and awe, and still, I refuse to go camping.
~Dov Davidoff

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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
~P T Barnum

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.
~Gilbert K Chesterton

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The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.
~Margo Kaufman

The point of sloths is to bring a sense of wonder, magic, and happiness to all other species. Did you know that every other animal’s favorite animal is the sloth?
~Ann Burton

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.
~Moby

It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that’s basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you’re really stuck with them in some sense. You can’t return them to the wild.
~Peter Singer

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In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.
~Andrew Weil

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.
~Jane Goodall

But he would have us most of all remember to be enthusiastic over the night. Not only for the sense of wonder it alone has to offer but also because it needs our love. For with sad eyes its delectable creatures look up and beg us dumbly to ask them to follow. They are exiles who long for a future that lies in our power.
~W H Auden

My activism is a result of my love. So whether it’s trying to preserve the wilderness in Southern Utah or writing about an erotics of place, it is that same impulse ‒ to try to make sense of the world, to try to preserve something that is beautiful, to ask the tough questions, the push the boundaries of what is acceptable.
~Terry Tempest Williams

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
~Wendell Berry

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§ The Exercise:

the view

clotted parallel ribbons
knitted burls on white carpet
statuesque carvings
fluid flows ice cold
cryptic mysts of mystery
vapors misbehaving
clouds changing their mind
scenes from forty grand high

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5s ‘n 7s

autumn’s fallow time, again
round rhythm’s designed demise
nature’s signature season
colors falling out of rhyme
sense of instinct, time to leave

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silence the prime medicine
verse on the noun versus verb
sense of the finite sublime
heal, or task the assassin
inlaid comma, or without

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what goes around comes around
needs rule, politics be damned
karma smells of consequence
sense of play works the good way
fair play, the foreplay to win

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curiosity
bold, the sacred sin
secret of the wise
sensing new prospect
dares the dark alone

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when sounds stood for sense
when plain thought staved off nonsense
back when words were meant
messages believed when sent
language’s lost sacrament

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the timing’s gone off
out of order, clock on strike
sensing disaster
revisiting old headlines
resurfacing, a new road

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vast sense of relief
the great fall bottoming out
new question of bounce

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life dropped by today
sad sense of the lost last chance
making love alone

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time worth recording
storied days of a decline
sense of a sunset

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

I just know that that doesn’t make sense, but I’m not sure why.
~Robert J Guia

It’s frustrating to know in your heart that what you’ve just heard is nonsense but not to be able to pinpoint why it is nonsense.
~Robert J Guia

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn’t.
~Joseph L Mankiewicz

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
~ Mark Twain

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There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational‒ or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don’t.
~Daniel Handler

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
~William James

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My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
~Timothy Leary

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
~Alan Watts

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There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It’s not there by chance.
~Roger Penrose

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
~Samuel Butler

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What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.
~Ravi Zacharias

It is where I will always derive a sense of place and a sense of belonging ·
~Paul Tsongas

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Nonsense and noise will oft prevail when honor and affection fail.
~Robert Lloyd

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
~Horace Walpole

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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another’s sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
~Saint Basil

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
~Walter Pater

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Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
~George S Patton

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent.
~Antonella Gambotto-Burke

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I don’t get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there’s no sense in getting upset. And I don’t get upset over things I can’t control, because if I can’t control them there’s no sense in getting upset.
~Mickey Rivers

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
~Wayne Dyer

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Your obsession with being in control of your mind makes you so stiff all the times; that is why our egos are growing, and our sense of humor is shrinking.
~Jasz Gill

Give up the thought that you have control. You don’t. The best you can do is adapt, anticipate, be flexible, sense the environment and respond.
~Frances Arnold

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Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
~Maxwell Maltz

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
~William Arthur Ward

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What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
~Lyndon B Johnson

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
~Joseph Conrad

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It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.
~Frederick Sanger (Nobel/biochemist)

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.
~Andre Geim

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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
~Aristotle

Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going to fast ‒ you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
~Eddie Cantor

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People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
~Sarah Churchwell

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
~William Penn

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Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you’ll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.
~Martha Beck

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
~Samuel Beckett

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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
~Henry Ward Beecher

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.
~Freeman Dyson

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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
~John Keats

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
~E M Forster

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When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.
~Eckhart Tolle

Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain’t natural.
~Neal Shusterman

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You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing.
~Gordon B Hinckley

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs
~Christopher Morley

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I knew I could do it all this time,” said Harry, “Because I’d already done it… does that make sense?
~J K Rowling

It’s a mind going over things, revisiting things, maybe trying to refine the original perception. You have to keep going a thing over in order to make sense off it.
~Paul Auster

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
~Francis Bacon

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.
~Lou Holtz

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Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
~Robert Collier

We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives.
~Les Brown

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
~Francis Bacon

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.
~Lou Holtz

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Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don’t laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.
~Criss Jami

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.
~William Davis

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Our answers make no sense because our questions make no sense.
~Marty Rubin

That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don’t make sense, neither will the answers.
~Kurt Vonnegut

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You look at where you’re going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you’ve been and a pattern seems to emerge.
Robert M Pirsig

When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.
~Wendell Berry

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Sometimes my life just don’t make sense at all. The mountains looks so big and my faith just seems so small.
~Rich Mullins

I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
~Bill Watterson

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Why are they going to disappear him?’ I don’t know.’ It doesn’t make sense. It isn’t even good grammar.’
~Joseph Heller

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
~Fran Lebowitz

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If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.
~Robert Musil

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.
~Hunter S Thompson

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Why did I want to break all the rules? Because the rules didn’t make sense, that’s why.
~Madonna Ciccone

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
~Harold S Kushner

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Life doesn’t make any sense unless you can enjoy the journey, and sometimes I take that for granted.
~Scott Weiland

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
~Emily Dickinson

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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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Earthtime
© 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
https://azquotes.com, https://brainyquote.com, https://dailypnut.com, https://wisesayings.com

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Fun Tarts: https://pinterest.com

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The Salmagundi Video Harvest
https://venmo.com, https://vevo.com, https://vimeo.com, https://youtube.com

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