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• Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.

  Jean Houston

  Mutation, Consciousness, Intense

  Jean Houston (1987). “The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Mythology and Sacred Psychology”, Tarcher

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• There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force

  John Keegan

  People, Wicked, World

  "John Keegan: Soldiers and Pacifists Share the Same Qualities" by Russ Wellen, fpif.org. February 13, 2013.

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• Our armed forces are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that this will happen before Israel goes under.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Israel, World, Capability

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• We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Air, Rome, Target

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• The forces by which the workers are kept in subjugation must be retaliated by force.

  Louis Lingg

  Subjugation, Workers

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• Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Expression, Law, Intellectual

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.17, AK Press

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• Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. And this unintelligence of its objectives sets its stamp on its supporters also and renders them stupid and brutal, even when they were originally endowed with the best of talents. One who is constantly striving to force everything into a mechanical order at last becomes a machine himself and loses all human feeling.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Stupid, Expression, Order

  "Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolf Rocker, (Ch. 1), 1938.

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• The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character.

  Louis-Philippe I of France

  Character, Quality, Useless

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• There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.

  Paul Wellstone

  Party, Sound, Want

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• Yet when ancient forces stir, many things are woken.

  Garth Nix

  Ancient

  Garth Nix (2014). “Abhorsen”, p.37, Hot Key Books

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• Jesmyn Ward left her Gulf Coast home for education and experience, but it called her back. It called on her in most painful ways, to mourn. In Men We Reaped, Jesmyn unburies her dead, that they may live again. And through this emotional excavation, she forces us to see the problems of place and race that led these men to their early graves. Full of beauty, love, and dignity, Men We Reaped is a haunting and essential read.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Home, Men, Emotional

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• Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.

  Roger Cohen

  World, Conspiracy, Theory

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• I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them.

  Henry Hudson

  Hands, London, Return

  "Henry Hudson: Dreams and Obsession; [the Tragic Legacy of the New World's Least Understood Explorer]". Book by Corey Sandler, Citadel Press, p. 119, 2008.

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• Did you know that the black suited organization that attacked the Koresh cult was a United Nations task force?

  Kent Hovind

  Organization, Black, Tasks

  "Unmasking the False Religion of Evolution". Book by Kent Hovind, 1996.

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• The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.

  Herbert Spencer

  Work Out, Perfect, Suffering

  Herbert Spencer (1851). “Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed”, p.416

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• Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you've built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature that they really are.

  Marilyn Manson

  Opinion, Humans, Persons

  Marilyn Manson, Neil Strauss (2012). “The Long Hard Road Out of Hell”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be born free but they are born into a system of subordination. We are not born into equality and do not have equality to eroticise. We are not born into power and do not have power to eroticise. We are born into subordination and it is in subordination that we learn our sexual and emotional responses. It would be surprising indeed if any woman reared under male supremacy was able to escape the forces constructing her into a member of an inferior slave class.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Sex, Emotional, Class

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• We are compelled by reflection to recognize that God is not to be placed against the material world [as in Christianity], but must be placed as a 'divine power' or 'moving spirit' within the cosmos itself ... All the wonderful phenomena of nature around us, organic as well as inorganic, are only various products of one and the same original force.

  Ernst Haeckel

  Moving, Reflection, Divine Power

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• I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a man to that high place. For sovereignty is a sacred trust that may not be bartered or sold; still less may it be stolen or taken by force.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Kings, Taken, Blessing

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• Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts - mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge that's generally suppressed and hidden. As an investor-entrepreneur, I've always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.

  Peter Thiel

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  "No Death, No Taxes". Interview with George Packer, www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2011.

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• Vera Stark is a fabulous force of nature.

  Pearl Cleage

  Fabulous, Forces Of Nature, Starks

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• I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Thinking, Special, Path

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• And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.

  Katherine Dunn

  Military, Soldier, Terrorist Groups

  "Just as Fierce". www.motherjones.com. November/December 1994.

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• There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters.

  James Burnham

  Class, Liberty, Groups

  "The Machiavellians, Defenders of Freedom" by James Burnham, (p. 280), 1987.

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• I think the artists of the recession will end up being a very strong force in the future. They learned about survival.

  Mark Edward

  Strong, Artist, Thinking

  "Artists Of The Recession". markedwardadams.com. September 5, 2012.

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