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• Inherited hatred (i.e. hatred your parents schooled you in) is not only stupid, it is destructive - why make your only driving force hate? Seems really f***ing dumb to me.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Hate, Stupid, Hatred

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• The absorption and organization of sunlight, the essence of life, is derived almost exclusively through plants. Since light is the driving force of every cell in our bodies, that is why we need green plants.

  Maximilian Bircher-Benner

  Health, Light, Cells

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• Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.

  Peter Drucker

  Technology, Data, Organization

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in a Time of Great Change”, p.12, Routledge

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• The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

  Jacques Delors

  Europe, Driving, Offensive

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• My dear husband, Richard, has been the driving force behind my success and rise to whatever level I am now. My story and legacy is incomplete without his mention.

  Joyce Banda

  Husband, Legacy, Stories

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• Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human action is given by material impulses ... merchants stood as a driving force behind the heroes of the age of discovery; this first heroic impulse to conquer the world emanated from very mortal forces

  Stefan Zweig

  Hero, Discovery, Conquer The World

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• If, as the scientist say, sex is such a driving force, why is so much of it nowadays found parked?

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Sex, Humorous

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• The driving force of a nation lies in its spiritual purpose, made effective by free, tolerant but unremitting national will.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Lying, Purpose

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.232, Best Books on

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• I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

  James D'arcy

  Expectations, Actors, Driving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

  Frederick Seitz

  Science, Innovation, Curiosity

  Frederick Seitz (2012). “The Science Matrix: The Journey, Travails, Triumphs”, p.39, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

  Peter Drucker

  Evil, Envy, Hatred

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.249, Transaction Publishers

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• Playing God is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set our children on the best path possible have been the fundamental driving forces of all of human history. Without these urges to ‘play God’, the world as we know it wouldn’t exist today.

  Ramez Naam

  Children, Expression, Play

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• Creativity permeates the cosmos. It is the driving force that sustains the particles, the stars and galaxiesit surges through the body with each beat of the heart. We all have access to creativity. At times, we summon it to use in our work and daily livesit can arrive in a dreamor it may result from a long struggleit can appear as a sudden, dramatic insightOne thing is certain — Creativity is ever present. It is a force to be enjoyed or endured but above all celebrated. Creativity is free, alive and spontaneous.

  F. David Peat

  Stars, Heart, Creativity

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• Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that.

  Jared Diamond

  Years, Acting, Twenties

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• The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.

  Yitzhak Shamir

  Israel, People, Hatred

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• Zen Master Dogen has pointed out that anxiety, when accepted, is the driving force to enlightenment in that it lays bare the human dilemma at the same time that it ignites our desire to break out of it.

  Philip Kapleau

  Anxiety, Desire, Enlightenment

  Philip Kapleau (1997). “Awakening to Zen: The Teachings of Roshi Philip Kapleau”, Scribner Book Company

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• To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self-interest as the driving force of society.

  Pedro Arrupe

  Self, Games, Play

  "Justice with Faith Today".

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• Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing towards pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call 'Viriditas' and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Inward, Cosmos, Looks

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Green Mars”, p.19, Spectra

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• The toughest part of the whole damn sport is the X Factor. To me, the X factor is your soul. It's your courage. It's your unique driving force. Suppose for a moment that [you] and I were [running]. Suppose that in every possible way-physical and mental-we were identical. Which one of us would emerge as the champion?

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Sports, Running, Unique

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• The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the "Holy Grail" is economic growth.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Country, Blood, Holy Grail

  "Spotlight: Yann Arthus-Bertrand, cinematographer and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme". UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. February 7, 2011.

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• People have always been telling me what I can't do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That's been one of my driving forces all my life.

  Ben Hogan

  People, Driving, Force

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• The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Children, Learning, Parent

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• The will to power which always emanates from individuals or from small minorities in society is in fact a most important driving force in history. The extent of its influence has up to now been regarded far too little, although it has frequently been the determining factor in the shaping of the whole of economic and social life.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Important, Littles, Facts

  "Nationalism and Culture" by Rudolf Rocker, translated by Ray E. Chase, Book I, (Ch. 1), 1952.

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• I was born to be an explorer. There never was any decision to make. I coudn't be anything else and be happy,the desire to see new places, to discover new facts- the curiosity of life always has been a resistless driving force to me.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Decision, Curiosity, Desire

  "This Business Of Exploring". Book by Roy Chapman Andrews, 1935.

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• I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter... It's been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Opportunity, Self, Missing

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