Quotes with forced

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  • Ben Stein The prosecutors say that Mr. Strauss-Kahn forced the complainant to have oral and other sex with him. How? Did he have a gun? Did he have a knife? He's a short fat old man.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Italo Calvino The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Epicurus The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Bryant Gumbel This comes at a time when Republicans are looking to gut the Clean Water Act and also the Safe Drinking Water Act. What are our options? Are we now forced to boil water because bottled water is not an economically feasible option for a lot of people?
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Carl Karcher We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.
    Carl Karcher
    American businessman (1917 - 2008)
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  • Norman Mailer What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Boy George What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Barry White When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • Busta Rhymes With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to settle for someone else.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Bill Flores With Obamacare's fate in jeopardy, Democrats have no solutions to solve the mess they forced upon Americans.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Anthony Minghella You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.
    Anthony Minghella
    British film director, playwright and screenwriter (1954 - 2008)
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  • Bill Vaughan Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
    Published in Oregonian newspaper on 31 December 1958, in the Column of Vaughan
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Huey Newton Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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