"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."

Force, Mistakes

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"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."

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"The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals."

Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician

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"Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be."

Ahmet Necdet Sezner, Turkish President

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"Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live."

Ray Brown, American Musician

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"Our patience will achieve more than our force."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."

Mignon McLaughlin, American Journalist

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"There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

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"The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before."

Jon Lee Anderson, American Author

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"At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar."

Joni Mitchell, Canadian Musician

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"I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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"Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?"

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"I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it."

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"White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people."

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"If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum."

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"Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think."

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"My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies."

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"Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way."

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"A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word."

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"When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this."

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