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Force Quotes
"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."
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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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"Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts."
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"Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers."
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"You are the most powerful cultural force in the world."
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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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"The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went."
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"We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them."
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"And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership."
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"If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun."
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"All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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"No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech."
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"I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero."
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"We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington."
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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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"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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"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."
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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."
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"The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals."
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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."
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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."
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"The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning."
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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."
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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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"The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell."
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"You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us up here, you down there. Instead, we're looking for interaction."
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"Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match."
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"When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered."
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