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• If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.

  George Soros

  Law, Democracy, Principles

  George Soros (2007). “Open Society Reforming Global Capitalism Reconsidered”, p.12, PublicAffairs

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• Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika

  Civilization, Defeat, Genocide

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• The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist. The vast majority of the people of Iraq are against the occupation of Iraq by the American and British forces.

  George Galloway

  Self, Iraq, People

  "Hitchens vs Galloway: The big debate", The Independent, September 16, 2005.

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• I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs -- there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism.

  Linus Pauling

  Military, Believe, Evil

  Linus Pauling, Barbara Marinacci (1995). “Linus Pauling in His Own Words: Selections From His Writings, Speeches and Interviews”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.

  Glenn Gould

  Thinking, Law, Evil

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• There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.

  Elias Canetti

  Superlatives, Emanate, Destructive

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• It can be argued - and rightly - that Taiwan is not just another regional issue: after all, the Chinese regard it as part of China. But Taiwan is also a regional issue for three reasons. First, the overthrow or even the neutering of democracy in Taiwan, which is what Beijing effectively demands, would be a major setback for democracy in the region as a whole. Second, if the Chinese were able to get their way by force in Taiwan, they would undoubtedly be tempted to do the same in other disputes. And third, there is no lack of such disputes to provoke a quarrel.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Issues, Chinese, Democracy

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• If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional armed forces, like those of the UK. And they can acquire more advanced technology. Indeed, unless that happens soon the gulf between the European and US capabilities will yawn so wide that it will not be possible to share the same battlefield. Alas, I do not think that sharing battlefields with our American friends - but rather disputing global primacy with them - is what European defence plans are truly about.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Technology, Thinking, Wish

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• Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just "talents."

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Judging, Feelings

  "The portable Jack Kerouac".

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• If you're trying to force the story to be a straight up romance, it's going to be weird for you.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Romance, Trying, Stories

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• There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest of these foundations are joined in common purpose, they represent an unusually powerful force that is beyond the reach of democratic institutions.

  Diane Ravitch

  Running, Powerful, Common Purpose

  Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• I can't find a person without some link to the armed forces!

  Robyn Carr

  Links, Persons, I Can

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• Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in the belief that necessity forces conformity, and conformity a certain stability. In a world shaped into conformity, dissidents stand out, are easily branded and dealt with. There is no multitude of perspectives, no dialogue. The victim assumes the face of the tyrant, self-righteous and intransigent, and wars breed like vermin. And people die.

  Steven Erikson

  War, Fall, Self

  "Midnight Tides". Book by Steven Erikson, 2004.

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• The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Spiritual, Fear, Character

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But what history really shows is that today`s empire is tomorrow`s ashes, that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Believe, Fighting, Exercise

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• The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.

  Neal Boortz

  Humorous, Party, Government

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• Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

  Maurice Strong

  Powerful, Political, Affair

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• Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes, hi-fi, etc. Don't say, don't write 'etc'. Make an effort to exhaust the subject, even if that seems grotesque, or pointless, or stupid. You still haven't looked at anything, you've merely picked out what you've long ago picked out.

  Georges Perec

  Stupid, Writing, Long Ago

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• As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring.

  Rick Larsen

  Games, Risk, Tasks

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• Look at it this way: There are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid twitching of one tortured nerve, or even a full-scale anxiety attack. I do not subscribe to this point of view 100 percent, but I understand it, have lived it. Thus the shriek, the caterwaul, the chainsaw gnarlgnashing, the yowl and the whizz that decapitates may be reheard by the adventurous or emotionally damaged as mellifluous bursts of unarguable affirmation.

  Lester Bangs

  Views, Anxiety, Nerves

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• John Wayne represents more force, more power, than anybody else on the screen.

  Howard Hawks

  Wayne, Screens

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

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• Sometimes I see players that think, and you can tell they're thinking of the next phrase to play or the next thing to do, the next little cute trick, and that's sad, man, you know. That's not makin' music; that's puttin' together puzzles, you know. Music should flow from you and it should be a force; it should be feeling, all feeling, man.

  Sonny Sharrock

  Cute, Music, Player

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• These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world... And something sooner or later has to give.

  Ken Wilber

  War, Two, Giving

  "The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion". Book by Ken Wilber, April 15, 1998.

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• When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.

  Che Guevara

  Law, Broken, Oppression

  Ernesto Guevara, Brian Loveman, Thomas M. Davies (1985). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.51, Rowman & Littlefield

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• No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern parent or teacher who tried to force into them a non-comprehending parrot-like apparent competence--a duty and a duty alone--and no hint of magic or beauty of the subject might be allowed to come through.

  Roger Penrose

  Teacher, Parent, Magic

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