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  • Jim Morrison The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
    Jim Morrison
    American singer, poet and songwriter (1943 - 1971)
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  • Bernard Mandeville The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • W. Clement Stone The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Ben Carson The P.C. police are out in force at all times... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Carl Lewis The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Mao Tse-Tung The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Deepak Chopra The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.
    Deepak Chopra
    East-Indian- American M.D., New Age Author, Lecturer (1946 - )
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  • Steven Biko The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.
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  • Nadine Gordimer The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Bill Moyers The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly veneration of wealth are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined.
    Moyers on Democracy
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Auberon Herbert The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Thomas Hobbes The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions.
    Leviathan (1651) XV
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Boris Yeltsin The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Camille Paglia The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Elizabeth Drew The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ''mangled mind'' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
    Elizabeth Drew
    American political journalist and author (1935 - )
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  • Adam C. Engst The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?
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  • Edmund Burke The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Betty Williams The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent world.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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