"The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once."

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"The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once."

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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

Force, Treatment

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Force, Laws, Meaning

"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

Force, Intellect, Reason

"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

Force, Law, Value

"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

"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."

James M. Barrie, British Playwright

Force, Open, Past

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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."

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

"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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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"There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us."

"True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat."

"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness."

"There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth."

"We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings."

"The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind."

"Another occupation might have been better."

"The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care."

"The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."

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