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• The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

  John Jay Chapman

  Men, Thinking, Voting

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Being The Best, Caffeine

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.26, Anchor

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• It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

  Mark Twain

  Self, Society, Requirements

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.85, Book Tree

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• The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Want, States

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.315, Knopf

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• A shepherd on a hilltop who looks at a mess of stars and thinks, ‘There’s a hunter, a plow, a fish,’ is making mental connections that have as much real force in the universe as the very fires in those stars themselves.

  Annie Dillard

  Stars, Real, Thinking

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• There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.

  John Lennon

  Love Yourself, Two, Make You Think

  "Celebrating John Lennon’s Birthday in His Own Inspiring Words" by Jeryl Brunner, parade.com. October 09, 2014.

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• We all share the wound of fragmentation. And we can all share in the cure of unification. Healing is the unification of all our forces -- the powers of being, feeling, knowing and seeing.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Healing, Knowing, Feelings

  Gabrielle Roth (2011). “Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement”, p.206, New World Library

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• You cannot lead without passion. Passion causes things to move, and passion creates a force multiplier. Passion actually covers a multitude of sins. Real EntreLeaders care deeply, and that is basically what passion is. Passion is not yelling or being wild; it is simply caring deeply.

  Dave Ramsey

  Real, Moving, Passion

  Dave Ramsey (2011). “EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems to me that the experiences that stay with you, the things you'll always remember, aren't the ones you can force, or go looking for. I've always thought of those things as the ones that somehow find you.

  Jessi Kirby

  Remember, Seems

  Jessi Kirby (2014). “Golden”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Believe, Mean

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Every image is in some way a “portrait,” not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it pulls and draws (this is the semantic and etymological sense of the word), in that it extracts something, an intimacy, a force.

  Sally Mann

  Way, Portraits, Photographer

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• The life-force may be the least understood force on earth.

  Norman Cousins

  Earth, May, Understood

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.

  Che Guevara

  Moving, Humanity, Everyday

  "Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution".

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• We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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• The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Space, Decision, Soldier

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• The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

  William Cobbett

  Giving, Bayonets, Brutes

  William Cobbett (1829). “Advice to young men, and, incidentally, to young women, in the middle and higher ranks of life, in a series of letters”, p.51

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• If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right and Wrong, then we can't, we won't control ourselves, but will look to someone else to bring order through brute force and raw power. We will be controlled by a tyrant, and we will no longer be free.

  Frank Peretti

  Taken, Order, Tyrants

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• The Holy Ghost does not come upon methods, but upon men. He does not anoint machinery, but men. He does not work through organizations, but through men. He does not dwell in buildings, but men. He indwells the Body of Christ, directs its activities, distributes its forces, empowers its members.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Men, Organization, Empowering

  Samuel Chadwick (2007). “The Way to Pentecost”, CLC Publications

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• Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and of the revolution of 1688; nor on property, as was the assertion of Harrington. It springs from the necessities of our nature, and has an everlasting foundation in the unchangeable will of God.

  James Otis

  Spring, Government, Foundation

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• Education is a slow moving but powerful force

  J. William Fulbright

  Powerful, Moving

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• Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Loving Life, Self, Suffering

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• My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Light, Evil, Darkness

  Ad Reinhardt (1975). “Art-as-art: the selected writings of Ad Reinhardt”, Viking Adult

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• Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of greater value than life itself. This gallant Air Force hero will be remembered because he made his final contribution to aviation in the dangerous role of test pilot of an untried experimental plane, a deed that places him among the stout-hearted pioneers who gave their lives in the conquest of sky and space.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Hero, Sky, Space

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• The living Word is able to destroy Satanic forces.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Satanic, Able

  Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Ever Increasing Faith”, p.46, Lulu.com

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• When things are not going right, there are satanic forces in
  operation. What is my solution? To rebuke the condition of sin, death, disease, or
  whatever it is. I can pray in the Holy Ghost, and that prayer is effectual to bring
  down every stronghold of the enemy.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Prayer, Enemy, Satanic

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