Force Quotes
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
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One arises from a low to a high station more often by using fraud instead of force.
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We've also had our anti-terrorism task force for several years. It has worked with the FBI and the ATF as well as our law enforcement.
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And as long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration, as to the people who have had the sense for righteousness most glowing and strongest; and in hearing and reading the words Israel has uttered for us, carers for conduct will find a glow and a force they could find nowhere else.
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Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants, lands, banks, means of transportation, etc., remain untouched there, and, therefore, capitalism in Germany and Italy remains in full force.
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The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.
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It's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. These laws try to fix something that was never broken. There has always been a legal defense for using deadly force if - and the 'if' is important - if no safe retreat is available. But we must examine laws that take this further by eliminating the common sense and age-old requirement that people who feel threatened have a duty to retreat, outside their home, if they can do so safely.
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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.
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The Tao never acts with force, yet there is nothing that it can not do.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the optimal way to reach this final state of healing.
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A force engaged is out of the hand of its commander.
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Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.
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Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
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Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
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Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means.
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The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.
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Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.
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The observance of one commandment, however clearly and forcibly enjoined, cannot make up for the neglect of another which is enjoined with equal clearness and equal force.
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Discipline is a necessary tool to help you get what you want in life. It forces you to stay on center and to move away from the things that are not necessary.
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Don't like when sports interviewers force answers: Are you dedicating this game to your sick grandmother? What's the guy supposed to say?
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
