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  • Bill Gates The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • William Hazlitt There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • C. M. Ward There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
    C. M. Ward
     
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  • Leo Buscaglia There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Billy Graham There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Anne Sophie Swetchine There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
    Anne Sophie Swetchine
    Russian writer (1782 - 1857)
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  • William James There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Arnold Bennett There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Herbert There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Bob Kerrey There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.
    Bob Kerrey
    American politician (1943 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • James Burnham There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power.
    Source: The Machiavellians p. 280
    James Burnham
    American philosopher and political theorist (1905 - 1987)
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  • Thomas Carlyle There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Betty Friedan There needs to be bolder thinking,... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work force. Currently, success is measured by material advancements. We need to readjust the definition of success to account for time outside of work and satisfaction of life, not just the dollars-and-cents bottom line.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Auberon Herbert There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Dorothy Parker This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Bill Clinton This ceremony is held in the depth of winter. But, by the words we speak and the faces we show the world, we force the spring.
    Source: Inaugural Address, 20 January 1993
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Dorothy Parker This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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