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• TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

  Bill Bixby

  Honesty, Tvs, Artistic

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• Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.

  Peter Senge

  Powerful, Excellence, Vision

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• We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization.

  Winston Churchill

  Civilization, People, Rising

  Anthony Eden, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill (1938*). “The Austrian Crisis and British Foreign Policy: Speeches by Anthony Eden, Neville Chamberlain, and Winston Churchill”

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• You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Bangs, Bigs

  "What Is Reality?". Book by Alan Watts, 1973.

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• Worthy goals are consistently achieved by enduring forces of adversity and opposition until they subside.

  Wes Fesler

  Adversity, Goal, Endurance

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• Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

  Jacques Barzun

  Boredom, Historical, Fatigue

  "The age of entropy" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2001.

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• The combination of an individual[i.e., a client] with a positive idea of living and a good designer is the great force in contemporary decoration. I don't care how good the designer is, I am sure that he [or she] would rahter have a person with definite ideas rahter than have to work with a negative figure as a client.

  Van Day Truex

  Ideas, Design, Negative

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• Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Thinking, Two

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1263, Manonmani Publishers

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• Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

  George Washington

  Freedom, Taken, Fire

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• We live in a country where we're supposed to have freedom of the press and religious freedom, but I think to some degree, there's a sense of fear in America today, that if you say the wrong thing, what some people will consider what is wrong, if you step out of line, if you dissent, whether you be an entertainer, that somehow and some way this government or the forces to be will come down on you.

  John Lewis

  Country, Religious, Freedom

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• Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they are designed for - a complicated and messy conversion, and one that itself expends energy and resources. Very few objects of modern consumption were designed with recycling in mind. If the process is truly to save money and materials, products must be designed from the very beginning to be recycled or even "upcycled" - a term we use to describe the return to industrial systems of materials with improved, rather than degraded, quality.

  William McDonough

  Community, Mind, Trying

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• Believe! Project a mental picture of your goal in life. Believing is a creative force that brings the visible out of the invisible. You must believe to achieve.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Confidence, Believe, Goal

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• She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armour, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency.

  Raymond Chandler

  War, Moving, Agency

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.174, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• "Chess has definitely helped me understand a lot of the strategy of football. In chess, good offense is often an exercise in putting multiple points of pressure on one square. In football, offensive play design (particularly passes) involves putting multiple points of pressure on one player." "In chess, you often give your opponent a move that looks strong for him, but it turns into a trap. Football is the same way. I've always thought of defense in football as being totally reactive. But now I understand the ways in which football defenses force the offense to make certain choices."

  Reggie Rivers

  Sports, Football, Strong

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• The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, War, Son

  Carl von Clausewitz (2006). “Selections from On war”

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• There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

  John Lennon

  Change, Wisdom, Love Yourself

  "Celebrating John Lennon’s Birthday in His Own Inspiring Words" by Jeryl Brunner, parade.com. October 09, 2014.

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• A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Funny, Hands, Insanity

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• A form comes out of a combination of force and matter.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Matter, Form, Combination

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.126, editionNEXT.com

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• There cannot be any form unless it is the result of force and matter; and all combinations must dissolve.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Matter, Form, Results

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.447, Manonmani Publishers

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• The time has come for those nations that rely on the force of nuclear armaments to respectfully heed the voices of peace-loving people, not least the atomic bomb survivors, to strive in good faith for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, and to advance towards the complete abolishment of all such weapons.

  Iccho Itoh

  Nuclear Disarmament, Voice, People

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• What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Icons, Target, Manhattan

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• After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.

  Georg Solti

  Mother, Intelligent, Six Months

  Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf

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• The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Immigration, Able, Canada

  Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.345, U of Nebraska Press

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• Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one episode of illness can wipe them out.

  Zafrullah Chowdhury

  Health, Important, Wipe

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• In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work force itself, the community in which it is located, users of its products or services, institutions that compete for the same resources. These interests should be directly represented in democratic structures that displace and eliminate private ownership of the means of production or resources, an anachronism with no legitimacy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Community, Decision

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