Force Quotes
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Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavours to preserve its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line.
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The cross calls humanity to stop trying to make God's kingdom happen through coercion and force, which are always self-defeating in the end, and instead, to welcome it through self-sacrifice and vulnerability.
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Only force rules. Force is the first law.
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A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?
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The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag.
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Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security.
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Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.
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He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.
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Few real people appear in my two novels, actually. "Ari" appears on the edge of this book a couple of times - but on the edge, she's never in it, even if she's a determining force from the outside. Everybody in the first book was basically made up, if never from scratch.
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It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.
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Society as we know it is almost a conspiracy against human health. One of the main forces working to counteract that is the trailsman.
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A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
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He mopped her face and thought how beautiful she was -- hair in a glorious tangle, a pink nose and puffy eyes, and swathed in a shapeless dressing gown only fit for the dustbin. The thought struck him with some force that he had fallen in love at last -- that, indeed, he had been in love for some time.
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For me, music is a magical life force that has the ability to make me cry, pick me up, and take me back in time.
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Love is the subtlest force in the world.
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[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
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People can help solve these problems, ... This is the power of our user base, rather than just using brute force and algorithmic search, although this is still important.
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For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.
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Force is always beside the point when sublety will serve.
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Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture...Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just like outward appearance without inner value, and never creative force....The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.
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Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.
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The human species has all but lost its heart; we gave it up for the illusionary fruits of the material world. But a life without heart is a life without life force. The psyche, as well as the body, needs both heart and brain in order to survive. Like Chinese women who bound their feet and the could no longer walk freely, we have bound our hearts, and thus stunted our growth as moral beings.
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A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.
