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  Water is the driving force of all nature.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Reality, Water

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• The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Action, Quantity, Whole

  Hermann von Helmholtz (1873). “Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects”, p.320

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• There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Running, Two, Long

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• I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Easter, West, Unions

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

  Simone Weil

  Crush, Truth, Men

  Simone Weil (2005). “War and the Iliad”, New York Review of Books

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• Force works on servile natures, not the free.

  Ben Jonson

  Nature

  Ben Jonson (1756). “Works: Collated with all the former editions, and corrected with notes critical and explanatory”, p.29

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• Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

  Alfred Jarry

  Thinking, Suffering, Ovation

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• We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Care, Littles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• There is great force hidden in a sweet command.

  George Herbert

  Literature, Gentle, Command

  "Beauties of Rev. George Herbert".

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• What force is more potent than love?

  Igor Stravinsky

  Love

  Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

  George C. Wallace

  Funny, Military, Air

  "Absurdities, Scandals & Stupidities in Politics". Book by Hakeem Shittu and Callie Query, p. 106, 2006.

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• You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

  Publilius Syrus

  Kindness, Accomplish, Kind

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• For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Christian, Fall, Taken

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• Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Air, Independence

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Arms and the Covenant”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally undermine his will to wage war.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Military, War, Enemy

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• Our warriors are no longer limited to the people who fly the airplanes...Our entire force is a warrior force. Being a warrior is not an AFSC, ...it's a condition of the heart.

  John P. Jumper

  Military, Heart, Airplane

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• The enduring responsibility of the United States Air Force is to provide strategic deterrence for the Nation and fly, fight and win as an integral part of the Joint Team. Together with our brothers and sisters in arms, we underwrite the national strategy of defending the Homeland and assuring allies, while dissuading, deterring and defeating enemies.

  Norton A. Schwartz

  Brother, Military, Team

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• Law, without force, is impotent.

  Blaise Pascal

  Law, Lawyer

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• The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

  Adolf Hitler

  Fear, Military, Historical

  Adolf Hitler, General Press (2016). “Mein Kampf: (My Struggle)”, p.95, GENERAL PRESS

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• We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Positive Thinking, Purpose, Used

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• I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.

  Lydia Lunch

  Thinking, Names, People

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• Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.

  Alexander P. de Seversky

  Air, Aviation, Defeat

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• A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no national security.

  Henry H. Arnold

  Air, Aviation, Modern

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• Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

  William Penn

  Hypocrite, May, Converting

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• Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

  Aaron Klug

  Powerful, Struggle, Secret

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