Alfred Thayer Mahan Quotes
“Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.”
Quotes to Explore
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Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really do.
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I make things of my own that aren't that glam, but I'm not known for that, which has always been a bit of a frustration for me.
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The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!
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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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I've always known that singing was some sort of calling for me. It comes naturally.
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For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.
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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.
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There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.
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Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.
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It's hard being such a powerful woman in the business. I'm known for not always being warm and fuzzy, because you'll just get bulldozed over.
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Not even close, ... Once I can transfer my weight to my front leg and just do it with a lot of force, and I don't even think about it, the home runs will come.
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[Mitt] Romney looks the part and is well known around the world and has a lot of experience.
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I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.
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The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.
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Not by force shall the children learn, but through play.
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A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.
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“To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.”
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True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
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“Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.”
