"I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away."

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"I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away."

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"Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe."

John Milton, English Poet

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"I do feel we can create more jobs and opportunities for Jersey City residents, but in the spirit of free enterprise, I do not think it is right to force companies to hire a fixed percentage of local residents."

Vincent Frank, American Author

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"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."

William James, American Philosopher

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

Thomas Hobbes, English Philosopher

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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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"Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason."

Charles Curtis, American Vice President

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"But Patsy, she was a great, great girl. And Brenda Lee is a wonderful person, and her mama Grace. I've known those folks for years and years and years."

Grace

"No, my son's a songwriter and he does that."

Son

"You have to insulate yourself - I'm talking about from everything, people can be talking to you and you won't hear 'em - that's how you write a song. And I haven't been able to do that over here 'cause I'm so busy and then, when I am off, I want to get away from music."

Music

"Well, no, you can prepare it all you want, but I'd still stutter."

Want

"And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk."

School

"And I had to take care of a little dog too named Suzy. It was the promoter's wife's - Judy Lynn's - it was her dog. And one of my duties going on the tour was to take care of it."

Wife

"I remember li'l ol' Hank Jr. - he was just a baby back in them days, you know - but he used to hang around. His mama would bring him around. He was just a natural."

Baby

"And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family."

Family

"And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Springfield, Missouri. They leased it to them for the first year. Then, after the first year, they will donate it to the church."

God

"And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music."

Music