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Force Quotes
"Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards."
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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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"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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"Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed."
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"You are the most powerful cultural force in the world."
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"Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it."
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"Nothing matures a military force quicker than actual military operations."
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"Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match."
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"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."
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"Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts."
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"And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership."
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"There is a bright spot or two for the Spaniards. French toast has become freedom toast on the Air Force One breakfast menu, but the Spanish omelet is still a Spanish omelet."
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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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"Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores."
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"There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better."
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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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"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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"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."
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"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."
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"Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity."
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"If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!"
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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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"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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"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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"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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"We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington."
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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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"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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"The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell."
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"They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay. I personally don't believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff. Tom does. That's what he wants to do, that's what he's going to do. You do not tell Tom what to do. He is a force to be reckoned with."
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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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"'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force."
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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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"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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"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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"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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