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"What you don't do can be a destructive force."
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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."

"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."

"Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one."

"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."

"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."

"Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason."
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"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

"I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war."

"Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself."

"If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law."

"Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little."

"Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: "A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work and the ability to love others.""

"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

"I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them."
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