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Force Quotes
"A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting."
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"I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away."
37
"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."
37
"Nothing matures a military force quicker than actual military operations."
37
"I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky."
36
"'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."
36
"Whether or not you could actually increase the size of the force is something that will have to be determined."
36
"From those few pending questions which the Commission would be called upon to solve at its fourth session, the most important one was the entry into force of the treaty."
36
"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."
34
"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!"
32
"Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity."
30
"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."
30
"Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best."
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"Let each produce according to his aptitudes and his force; let each consume according to his need."
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"Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason."
27
"Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security."
26
"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."
26
"Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one."
24
"I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force."
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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."
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"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal."
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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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