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• Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Powerful, Self Esteem, Self Respect

  Nathaniel Branden (1992). “Power of Self Esteem”

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• Witchcraft ... is a spiritual path. You walk it for nourishment of the soul, to commune with the life force of the universe, and to thereby better know your own life.

  Christopher Penczak

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Christopher Penczak (2002). “The Inner Temple of Witchcraft: Magick, Meditation and Psychic Development”, p.25, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

  F. H. Bradley

  Struggle, Blow, Yield

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, No. 75, 1930.

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• Every now and then we enter the presence of the numinous and deduce for an instant how we're formed, in what detail the force that infuses every petal might specifically run through us, wishing only to lure us into our full potential.

  Mary Karr

  Running, Wish, Full Potential

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• We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our present government skills, except through the instrument of a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores. … And if they deem Soviet power a menace to our freedom (as I happen to), they will have to support large armies and air forces, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards, and the attendant centralization of power in Washington-even with Truman at the reins of it all.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  War, Army, Government

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• Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self-seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation. Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.

  John Jay Chapman

  Men, Self, Age

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• We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

  Les Aspin

  Should Have, Done, Damage

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• What do we mean by the defeat of the enemy? Simply the destruction of his forces, whether by death, injury, or any other means-either completely or enough to make him stop fighting. . . . The complete or partial destruction of the enemy must be regarded as the sole object of all engagements. . . . Direct annihilation of the enemy's forces must always be the dominant consideration.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Mean, Fighting, Enemy

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (2007). “On War”, p.26, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it. But victory has not become an ossified concept altogether.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Victory, Levels, May

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• In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for allowing Shiites and Kurds to be butchered and not going to Baghdad when the road was open and the dictator tottering. In Iraq #2 we removed the tyrant at less cost than the liberation of Kuwait during the earlier war, stayed on to ensure freedom and fair representation for various groups - and are being castigated for either using too little force to ensure needed order or too much power that stifles indigenous aspirations and turns popular opinion against us.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  War, Home, Kuwait

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• I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

  Sally Kirkland

  Cutting, Thinking, Cameras

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• Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20.

  Curt Weldon

  Florida, People, Special

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• The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of the majority, with force, threats, and intimidation being the order of the day. Today's federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. ... [The War] also laid to rest the great principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence that 'Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed'.

  Walter E. Williams

  War, Men, America

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• Being and stability are regarded by our contemporaries as akin to death; they cannot live unless they act, fret, or distract themselves with this or that. Their spirit (provided we can still talk about a spirit in their case) feeds only on sensations and on dynamism, thus becoming the vehicle for the incarnation of darker forces.

  Julius Evola

  Becoming, Spirit, Cases

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• Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.

  Langdon Winner

  Powerful, Technology, Acting

  Langdon Winner (2010). “The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology”, p.6, University of Chicago Press

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• It is not possible to make a LASTING compromise between technology and freedom, because technology is by far the more powerful social force and continually encroaches on freedom through REPEATED compromises.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Powerful, Technology, Compromise

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.55, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Be very careful that you do not unconsciously assume that nervous tension is power. This is vital. Watch yourself the next time you work toward some goal. Look very closely to discover tense feelings and nervous thoughts whirling around inside. Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.

  Vernon Howard

  Goal, Creative, Feelings

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• One way to eliminate self negating thoughts and behavior is by gaining more understanding through realizing that you cannot force others to see that what you feel is real.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Real, Self, Understanding

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jul 27, 2011

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• Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days.

  Evan Parker

  Air, People, Musical

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• It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Evil, Support

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• A play's got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It's not music, it's not poetry, it's not dance, it's not narrative - it's dramaticit's about conflict. It's about forces coming together.

  Romulus Linney

  Play, Together, Events

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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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• The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.

  Andrew Jackson

  Acting, May, Influence

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.237

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• I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience.

  Anton Chekhov

  Best Effort, Police, Criticism

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don't know about--and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.

  Barry Goldwater

  Thinking, Government, Air

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