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• Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon.

  Takeda Shingen

  Dragons, Bees

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• No force, no torture, no intrigue can eradicate Marxism-Leninism from the minds and hearts of men.

  Enver Hoxha

  Heart, Men, Mind

  Enver Hoxha (1980). “Eurocommunism is anti-communism”, Natl Pubns Centre

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• The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in mind. But, on the contrary, they glorify us with this epithet; it is an honor for us to be Stalinists for while we maintain such a stand the enemy cannot and will never force us to our knees.

  Enver Hoxha

  Thinking, Honor, Mind

  Enver Hoxha (1974). “On Further Revolutionizing Our Party and the Life of Our Country as a Whole: Speeches 1967-1968”

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• I am confident that we can overcome this crisis, provided that we remain united in our effort to address our debt and competitiveness problems. And I think that the Greek people are united; it's important also that the political forces are united in line with the will of the Greek people.

  Lucas Papademos

  Thinking, People, Political

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• Moving pictures have become one of the greatest revitalizing forces in race adjustment.

  Oscar Micheaux

  Moving, Race, Adjustment

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• It's that quality possessed by some which draws al others with magnetic force. With 'IT' you win all men if you are a woman–and all women if you are a man. 'IT' can be a quality of the mind as well as a physical attraction.

  Elinor Glyn

  Winning, Men, Mind

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• But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires. Still, anything can be endured if all humanity is watching. The martyrs prove it. We live in the attention of others. We turn to it as flowers to the sun.

  James Salter

  Lying, Flower, Passion

  James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.35, Vintage

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• As we are all aware, Special Operations Forces, SOF, are playing an increasingly essential role as we continue to fight and, more importantly, win the war on terror.

  Robin Hayes

  War, Fighting, Winning

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• Did Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews furnish structural material for Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon? It has been pointed out in these pages that there are many things in the former book that might well have suggested many major things in the other.Not a few things merely, one or two, or half dozen, but many; and it is this fact of many things of similarity and the cumulative force of them that makes them so serious a menace to Joseph Smith's story of the Book of Mormon's origin

  B. H. Roberts

  Book, Two, Views

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• Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.

  Hamid Karzai

  Country, People, Needs

  "The Loneliness of the Afghan President: Karzai on His Own". Interview with Aryn Baker, content.time.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Why does corruption in government always surprise us? Why do we expect anything else from it? Government is organized force. It takes our wealth and makes war. And we think honest men would do that work?

  Joseph Sobran

  War, Men, Thinking

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• A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don't respect their victimhood, they'll destroy you.

  Joseph Sobran

  Hypocritical, Victim, Etiquette

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• The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.

  W. Clement Stone

  Law, Lines, Matter

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• We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world, through a few brains. The arts and institutions of men are created out of thought. The powers that make the capitalist are metaphysical, the force of method and force of will makes trade, and builds towns.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Book, Men

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• Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.

  Stafford Cripps

  Idaho, Feelings, Problem

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• The bottom line is that after we defeat the armed forces of Iraq, that we will want to and need to provide stability throughout that country.

  Peter Pace

  Country, Iraq, Needs

  "Bush, Blair to hold summit on Iraq", www.cnn.com. April 7, 2003.

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• The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.

  Pete McCloskey

  College, Students, Environment

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• The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

  Arthur Keith

  War, Humanity, World

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• There is nothing so strong as the force of love; there is no love so forcible as the love of an affectionate mother to her natural child.

  Elizabeth Grimston

  Mother, Strong, Children

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• The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student of human nature, to pay attention to his experience, to understand the nature of experience itself. By delving into raw experience and distilling it into a work of art, the writer is engaging in the heart and soul of philosophy - making sense out of life.

  Georg Buhler

  Life, Art, Powerful

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• The first fundamental law of the universe is the law of three forces, of three principles, or , as it is often called, the law of three. According to this law every action, every phenomenon in all worlds without exception, is the result of a simultaneous action of three forces- the positive, the negative, and the neutralizing.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Law, Principles, Negative

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• The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.

  Hideki Tojo

  Strong, War, Japan

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• You invite judgment into your life every time you judge others. To avoid this invitation to negativity, it's best to stop focusing on others' darkness. Instead, pay attention to their strengths. Today, be a horse with blinders. Look at only the good. As you develop this power, you will attract positive forces into your life.

  Yehuda Berg

  Forgiveness, Horse, Judging

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• There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news.

  Pat Sajak

  Real, Moving, World

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• Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.

  Thomas Perry

  Bedtime, Film, Process

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. January 17, 2003.

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