Quotes with gale-force

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  • Napoleon Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Anna C. Brackett All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
    Anna C. Brackett
    American philosopher and feminist
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  • James Freeman Clarke All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
    James Freeman Clarke
    American theologian and author (1810 - 1888)
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  • Martha Graham America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage.
    Martha Graham
    American modern dancer and choreographer (1894 - 1991)
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  • Lord George Byron America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • Greil Marcus Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
    Greil Marcus
    American author, music journalist and critic (1945 - )
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  • George W. Crane Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!
    George W. Crane
    American psychologist and physician
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  • Bruce Barton As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Bruce Lee As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Ben Goldacre Bad things happen when problems are protected by a force field of tediousness.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Bob Kane Bill Finger was a contributing force on Batman right from the beginning. He wrote most of the great stories and was influential in setting the style and genre other writers would emulate... I made Batman a superhero-vigilante when I first created him. Bill turned him into a scientific detective.
    Bob Kane and Tom Andrae (1989)
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Henry George Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Camille Paglia Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self-love.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Henry George Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Blaise Pascal Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • B. B. King Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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