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Force Quotes
"And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership."
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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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"Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs."
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"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."
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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 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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"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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"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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"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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"Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force."
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"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man."
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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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"We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington."
44
"They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be."
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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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"No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech."
43
"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."
43
"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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"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."
42
"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 attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell."
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"Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment."
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"When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant."
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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."
41
"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."
40
"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."
40
"The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals."
40
"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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"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."
38
"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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"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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"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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"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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"We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them."
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