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• I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army, and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war, and say to the world; 'Do your worst!'

  George Lansbury

  War, Army, Air

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• I needed to go . . . the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth.

  Tenzing Norgay

  Stronger, Earth, Needed

  Biography/Pesonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I know I can do so much more than this, I know that I could be a life force, could love with a heart full of soul, could feel with the power that flies men to the moon. I know that if I could just get out from under this depression, there is so much I could do besides cry in front of the TV on a Saturday night.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Love, Heart, Moon

  "Prozac Nation". Book by Elizabeth Wurtzel, 1994.

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• Today, 9 May, exactly forty-nine months and three days after the Fascist attack on Yugoslavia, the most powerful aggressive force in Europe, Germany, has capitulated.

  Josip Broz Tito

  Powerful, Europe, Yugoslavia

  "Tito: A Biography". Book by Jasper Ridley, 1994.

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• Technology is a resource-liberating force!

  Peter Diamandis

  Technology, Resources, Liberating

  "Invasion of the flying robots" by Richard Galant, www.cnn.com. March 04, 2012.

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• The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent stands behind the hierarchy of laws. In one situation, the population is regimented into acquiescence. In the other, the population voluntarily establishes a contract with Parliament.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Government, Order, Law

  "If I am assassinated".

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• Abraham Lincoln, in order to maintain the unity of the United Statesresorted to the use of force.so, I think Abraham Lincoln, president, is a model, is an example.

  Zhu Rongji

  Thinking, Order, Unity

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• As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.

  Nick Clooney

  Animal, May, Affection

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• It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Agreement, Paper, Sides

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• An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.

  Adnan Pachachi

  Apology, Thinking, Majority

  "CNN Crossfire", www.cnn.com. May 5, 2004.

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• I've heard attacks were made on coalition forces because of those. I apologize to the families of those who lost loved ones or were injured because of the photos.

  Lynndie England

  Lost Love, Apology, Apologizing

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• I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers.

  Lynndie England

  Apology, America, Soldier

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• The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

  John Boyd Orr

  Appreciate, Arms, Territory

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• [The stimulus bill funds] a bureaucratic structure for the government to begin rationing the health care of the American people. They can then lead a national, populist, grassroots movement to force Congress to pass the bill, and President Obama to sign it, educating the public along way about the intractable problems of socialized medicine.

  Peter Ferrara

  Medicine, Government, People

  "Repeal Health Care Fascism". spectator.org. February 25, 2009.

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• The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely compulsive force upon his thinking and with which it is not possible to be at variance.

  Ludwik Fleck

  Thinking, Style, Collaboration

  Ludwik Fleck (2012). “Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact”, p.41, University of Chicago Press

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• Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

  Rajneesh

  God, Letting Go, Flower

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• We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.

  Laurence Sterne

  Complaining, Sometimes, Complaints

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• Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Jiu Jitsu, Efficiency

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• You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Overcoming, Opponents

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.27, Tuttle Publishing

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• Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come halfway round the world to convey.

  Helen Barrett Montgomery

  Ideas, Missionary, Bending

  "Western Women in Eastern Lands: An Outline Study of Fity Years of Woman's Work in Foreign Missions".

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• Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts in parent manuals. . . . It is a relative term that means different things in different places. In Fort Wayne, for example, the wrong crowd meant hanging out with liberal Democrats. In Connecticut, it meant kids who weren't planning to get a Ph. D. from Yale.

  Mary Blakely

  Mean, Kids, Yale

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom Motherhood Politics and Humble Pie”, Pocket

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• Of course, peer pressure has a strong positive component. It provides the social cohesion that allows the very development of communal affiliation. But peer power as an extrinsic force is a lot like radiation: a little goes a long way.

  Charles D. Hayes

  Strong, Long, Social Pressure

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• A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?

  Alexander Cairncross

  Trends, Planning, Courses

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• We can't control forces of nature. But we can control what comes afterward. We have a chance to start fresh.

  George W. P. Hunt

  Chance, Planning, Forces Of Nature

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• Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

  Robert McNamara

  Reality, Shapes, Poor Planning

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