"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."

Force, Open, Past

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"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."

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"The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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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, Irish Dramatist

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"It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in force solely for the aggregate of these commodities."

Rudolf Hilferding, Austrian Economist

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"There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better."

Magnus Magnusson, Scottish Journalist

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"We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers."

Barney Ross, American Athlete

Force, Islands

"Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores."

Bill Alexander, American Politician

Force, Intellectuals, Poets, Spain

"Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security."

Igor Ivanov, Russian Statesman

Force, Resolution, Responsibility, Right

"Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

Force, Media, Presidency, Universe

"Whether or not you could actually increase the size of the force is something that will have to be determined."

Hugh Shelton, American Soldier

Force, Will

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