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Force Quotes
"What was taken by force, can only be restored by force."
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"We oppose occupation of land by force and we believe in dialogue as the method for regaining Arab rights. This is the spirit of the Great Arab Revolt."
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"No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever."
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"The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back."
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"Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital."
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"Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think."
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"You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish."
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"How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law."
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"Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so."
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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 more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher."
3
"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal."
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"It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best."
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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."
2
"The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia."
2
"Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit."
2
"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."
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"If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force."
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"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."
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"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."
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"However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise as the administration's policies force inflation."
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"One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires."
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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."
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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."
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"Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force."
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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."
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"Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere."
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"Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one."
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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."
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"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man."
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"I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force."
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"Nothing matures a military force quicker than actual military operations."
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"We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set."
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