"It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining."

Force, Houses, Sheep

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"It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining."

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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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"They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be."

Christiane Amanpour, English Journalist

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

Hugh Shelton, American Soldier

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"We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them."

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Public Servant

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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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"Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest."

Pieter Zeeman, Dutch Physicist

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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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"I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm."

Mike Tyson, American Athlete

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"Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities."

Ernst Thalmann, German Politician

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"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."

Nikola Tesla, American Inventor

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"He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast."

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"Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence."

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"He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions."

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"A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?"

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"The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety."

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