Force Quotes - Page 10

• I think a legitimate target is the enemy and [the] enemy is basically in uniform, but not all [are] in Uniform. For example in the rural areas, our judgement is that virtually the whole farming community is part of the South African Defence Force.

  Joe Slovo

  Thinking, Community, Judgement

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• One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country.

  Joe Slovo

  Country, Important, Tactics

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• Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous.

  Kent Conrad

  Jobs, Wind, Dollars

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• No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.

  Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

  Firsts, Operations, Certainty

  "Moltke on the Art of War: Selected Writings" by Daniel J. Hughes and Harry Bell, (p. 92), 1993.

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• What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the planet gunned down by a guy who said a few goofy things no one took seriously. And that's the problem: America has the best troops and fiercest firepower, but no strategy for throttling the ideology that drives the enemy — in Afghanistan and in Texas.

  Mark Steyn

  Fighting, Men, Texas

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• Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

  William J. Brennan

  Sex, Age, Mysterious

  "Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476". Writing for the court, 1957.

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• Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.

  Byron White

  Doe, Use, Failing

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• Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex.

  Alexander McQueen

  Sex, Animal, Energy

  "Savage Beauty". Book by Andrew Bolton, April 26, 2011.

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• I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex; things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it

  Alexander McQueen

  Sex, War, Thinking

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• Since the ousting and capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. forces, civil rights and personal freedoms have been restored in Iraq, as well as equal rights to all, not just to Saddams entourage of terrorists.

  Jim Gerlach

  Iraq, Rights, Hussein

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• Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Country, Public Opinion, Publicity

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• I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it … . Despite my alienation from myself at that moment, and even though I was nothing but a battleground for invisible forces, I was aware of every detail of what was going on around me.

  Knut Hamsun

  Mad, Details, Able

  Knut Hamsun (2008). “Hunger: A Novel”, p.6, Macmillan

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• Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?

  R. C. Sproul

  Holiness, Firsts, Disciple

  R. C. Sproul (2013). “The Holiness of God”, p.53, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• What we're also doing is helping police forces in terms of issues like procurement and IT, so that savings can be made in those areas which I think is the sort of thing that everybody is going to want us to be doing.

  Theresa May

  Thinking, Issues, Police

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We are mandating forces to hold regular neighbourhood beat meetings. These meetings will give local people the chance to scrutinise the work of their local police.

  Theresa May

  People, Giving, Police

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What we know from lab studies is that it's never too late to break a habit. Habits are malleable throughout your entire life. But we also know that the best way to change a habit is to understand its structure - that once you tell people about the cue and the reward and you force them to recognize what those factors are in a behavior, it becomes much, much easier to change.

  Charles Duhigg

  People, Too Late, Labs

  "How to Turn Drinking from One of Life’s Pleasures to a Habit in Three Easy Steps" by Leah Odze Epstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.

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• I love myself enough-not in a schmaltzy garbage sense, Hallmark stuff, I'm talking respect myself-I respect my life-force enough to no longer waste it.

  Caroline Myss

  Talking, I Love Myself, Stuff

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• He alone knows to whom He will reveal Himself under which form. By what path and in what manner He attracts any particular man to Himself with great force is incomprehensible to the human intellect. The Path differs indeed for different pilgrims.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Men, Different, Path

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• Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

  Chris Hedges

  Numbers, Revolutionary, Human Life

  Chris Hedges (2013). “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress”, p.106, Nation Books

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• If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.

  George Soros

  Law, Democracy, Principles

  George Soros (2007). “Open Society Reforming Global Capitalism Reconsidered”, p.12, PublicAffairs

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• Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take advantage of this power as an engine for quality. When students themselves are in charge of projects that they care about, peer pressure can become a powerful force for high standards.

  Sandy Berger

  Powerful, School, Quality

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• It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripened and blossoms appear in their fragrance and loveliness. And the month when lovers, subject to the same force which reawakens the plants, feel their hearts open again, recall past trysts and past vows, and moments of tenderness, and yearn for a renewal of the magical awareness which is love.

  Thomas Malory

  Heart, Past, Tree

  Sir Thomas Malory, Keith Baines (1962). “Le morte d'Arthur”

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• There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then it is only in moments of silence, which are rare and brief, that their beat can be faintly discerned. There are other times. These are the times when God is heard in rolling thunder, when the earth trembles and the treetops bend under the force of [God’s] voice. It is not given to men [and women] to make God speak. It is only given to them to live and to think in such a way that, if God’s thunder should come, they will not have stopped their ears.

  Peter L. Berger

  Dark, Men, Thinking

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• To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one also knows that there is not an awful lot that one can do about this.

  Peter L. Berger

  Mean, Awful, Social

  Peter L. Berger (1973). “Invitation to sociology: a humanistic perspective”, Overlook Pr

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• Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy

  Peter L. Berger

  Running, Long, Democracy

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