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• Housetops were covered with 'gazers'; all wharves that offered a view were jammed with people ... As British officers happily reminded one another, it was the largest fleet ever seen in American waters. In fact it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century, the largest, most powerful force ever sent forth by Britain or any other nation.

  David McCullough

  Powerful, Views, People

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• England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile intention? We should sink to the level of a fifth rate Power, our Colonies would be stripped from us, our commerce would decline, famine and unemployment would stalk the land... I have yet to learn that the cause of peace can be served by rendering our country impotent.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Country, Thinking, Land

  "Semi-detached Idealists: The British Peace Movement and International Relations". Book by Martin Ceadel, p. 271, 2000.

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• He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reality, Magic, Dull

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1460, Delphi Classics

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• To you who answered the call of your country and served in its Armed Forces to bring about the total defeat of the enemy, I extend the heartfelt thanks of a grateful Nation. As one of the Nation's finest, you undertook the most severe task one can be called upon to perform. Because you demonstrated the fortitude, resourcefulness and calm judgment necessary to carry out that task, we now look to you for leadership and example to further exalting our country in peace.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Grateful, Heart

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• But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Causes, Chaos

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.265, Penguin

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• Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.

  Isaac Newton

  Change, Impact, Uniforms

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• Many try to force the past to change.

  Mason Cooley

  Change, Past, Trying

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• I think Dario Ringach is a poster boy for the concept that the use of force or the threat of force is an effective means to stop people who abuse animals," "No strictly peaceful movement has succeeded in liberation," "I think the animal rights movement has been restrained in its use of force, mostly because people in the struggle are often people of privilege who aren't willing to risk losing that privilege.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Struggle, Mean, Animal

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• There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.

  Otto Schily

  Iraq, Terrorist Groups, Problem

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• Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. It seeks to show new perspectives and other choices. It is a way to help expand and liberate the consciousness; our experiences, understandings, imaginings, options and thereby our lives.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Lying, Men

  "The Soul of Man under Socialism". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

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• That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Anger, Heart, Hands

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• People complain that the religious ground is unsure who have never compelled themselves to examine it with a tithe of the care spent on a contract; but they have taken current suggestions in a dreamy and hypnotised way. They will not attend, they will not force themselves to attend, gravely to the gravest things.... they read everything in a vagrant, browsing fashion. They turn on the most serious subjects the holiday, seaside, newspaper habit of mind

  Peter Forsyth

  Religious, Fashion, Taken

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• Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Faith, Men, Together

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “The Orations”, p.138

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• Nothing is more violent and radical than what's being done to non-human animals in our society. If a researcher won't stop abusing animals and is stopped physically, whether with the use of force, or is killed, I certainly wouldn't lose sleep over that idea.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Sleep, Animal, Ideas

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• ... the cooperative forces are biologically the more important and vital. The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and egoistic is relatively close. Under many conditions the cooperative forces lose, In the long run, however, the group centered, more altruistic drives are slightly stronger. ... human altruistic drives are as firmly based on an animal ancestry as is man himself. Our tendencies toward goodness... are as innate as our tendencies toward intelligence; we could do well with more of both.

  Warder Clyde Allee

  Running, Animal, Men

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• Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Next, Scene

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• Take this one in my belly. He (or she) is determined to be here. I can feel the force of his being. It's as if he has something to do here and just wants to arrive and grow up so he can get to it.

  Rebecca Walker

  Growing Up, Want, Determined

  Rebecca Walker (2008). “Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence”, p.34, Penguin

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• And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.

  Chris Chocola

  Arguing, Ownership, Universe

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• The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.

  John Perry Barlow

  Government, Monopoly, Knows

  "John Perry Barlow 2.0". Interview with Brian Doherty, reason.com. August 1, 2004.

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• The US-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Numbers, Weapons, God Is With Us

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• A powerful force drives the world toward a converging commonality, and that force is technology. … Almost everyone everywhere wants all the things they have heard about, seen, or experienced via the new technologies.

  Theodore Levitt

  Powerful, Technology, World

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• If we generally like the way things are now, we must also ask whether our current situation is really so different from the open ages of radio, film, or the telephone. Might it not also have seemed in those times that the orgy of limitless entrepreneurism would never end? The point is that we are near the high end of a pendulum arc that, so far, has aways begun to swing in the opposite direction -toward greater integration and centralization- with a force that can seem inexorable.

  Tim Wu

  Swings, Opposites, Age

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• Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.

  Ernst Thalmann

  Political, Cost, Confession

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• The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself.

  James Agate

  Mad, Events, World

  James Agate (1940). “Ego 4: yet more of the autobiography of James Agate”

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• The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.

  Emanuel Ax

  Reactions, Audience, Sheer

  "Alex Ross: Time to show our appreciation for classical music". Interview With Alex Ross, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2010.

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