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• Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Believe, Mean

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Every image is in some way a “portrait,” not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it pulls and draws (this is the semantic and etymological sense of the word), in that it extracts something, an intimacy, a force.

  Sally Mann

  Way, Portraits, Photographer

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• The same creative force that generated the universe created your body. It is vibrating with intelligence and spirit. It is ultimately sacred and worthy of your love, respect and intention. Take good care of it and nourish it with the most healing, life-sustaining foods, experiences, and sensory impressions.

  David Simon

  Healing, Creative, Body

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• When we harness the natural force of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.

  Deepak Chopra

  Joy, And Love, Ease

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• A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Victory, World

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.23, New World Library

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• Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents.

  Paulo Coelho

  Water, Alchemist, Treasure

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• The life-force may be the least understood force on earth.

  Norman Cousins

  Earth, May, Understood

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.

  Che Guevara

  Moving, Humanity, Everyday

  "Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution".

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• We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.

  Henry Knox

  Government, Law, People

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• We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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• The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Space, Decision, Soldier

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• Tradition is a very powerful force.

  John P. Kotter

  Powerful, Tradition, Very Powerful

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• Submission to duty and God gives the highest energy. He, who has done the greatest work on earth, said that He came down from heaven, not to do His own will, but the will of Him who sent Him, Whoever allies himself with God is armed with all the forces of the invisible world.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Giving, Heaven, Allies

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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• The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

  William Cobbett

  Giving, Bayonets, Brutes

  William Cobbett (1829). “Advice to young men, and, incidentally, to young women, in the middle and higher ranks of life, in a series of letters”, p.51

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• If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right and Wrong, then we can't, we won't control ourselves, but will look to someone else to bring order through brute force and raw power. We will be controlled by a tyrant, and we will no longer be free.

  Frank Peretti

  Taken, Order, Tyrants

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• Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.

  Conrad Black

  Real, War, Assault

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• The Holy Ghost does not come upon methods, but upon men. He does not anoint machinery, but men. He does not work through organizations, but through men. He does not dwell in buildings, but men. He indwells the Body of Christ, directs its activities, distributes its forces, empowers its members.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Men, Organization, Empowering

  Samuel Chadwick (2007). “The Way to Pentecost”, CLC Publications

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• Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and of the revolution of 1688; nor on property, as was the assertion of Harrington. It springs from the necessities of our nature, and has an everlasting foundation in the unchangeable will of God.

  James Otis

  Spring, Government, Foundation

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• We only know God in His works, but we are forced by science to admit and to believe with absolute confidence in a Directive Power-in an influence other than physical, or dynamical, or electrical forces.

  Lord Kelvin

  Believe, Influence, Electrical

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• Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make

  Lorna Luft

  Making Changes, Wanted

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• Education is a slow moving but powerful force

  J. William Fulbright

  Powerful, Moving

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• Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Loving Life, Self, Suffering

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• A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.

  Anita Roddick

  Age, Unstoppable, Advancing

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• My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Light, Evil, Darkness

  Ad Reinhardt (1975). “Art-as-art: the selected writings of Ad Reinhardt”, Viking Adult

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• Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of greater value than life itself. This gallant Air Force hero will be remembered because he made his final contribution to aviation in the dangerous role of test pilot of an untried experimental plane, a deed that places him among the stout-hearted pioneers who gave their lives in the conquest of sky and space.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Hero, Sky, Space

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