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Force Quotes
"I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky."
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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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"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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"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."
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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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"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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"I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away."
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"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."
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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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"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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"Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment."
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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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"Whether or not you could actually increase the size of the force is something that will have to be determined."
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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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"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 would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force."
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"Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason."
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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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"Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity."
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"Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best."
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"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."
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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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"Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one."
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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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"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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