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  Water is the driving force of all nature.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Reality, Water

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• I believe in a higher force that is within me.

  Tobey Maguire

  Believe, Higher, I Believe

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• We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Care, Littles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• Force works on servile natures, not the free.

  Ben Jonson

  Nature

  Ben Jonson (1756). “Works: Collated with all the former editions, and corrected with notes critical and explanatory”, p.29

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• Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

  Alfred Jarry

  Thinking, Suffering, Ovation

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• I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Easter, West, Unions

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Running, Two, Long

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• Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

  Simone Weil

  Crush, Truth, Men

  Simone Weil (2005). “War and the Iliad”, New York Review of Books

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• What force is more potent than love?

  Igor Stravinsky

  Love

  Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

  Publilius Syrus

  Kindness, Accomplish, Kind

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• There is great force hidden in a sweet command.

  George Herbert

  Literature, Gentle, Command

  "Beauties of Rev. George Herbert".

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• Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

  George C. Wallace

  Funny, Military, Air

  "Absurdities, Scandals & Stupidities in Politics". Book by Hakeem Shittu and Callie Query, p. 106, 2006.

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• No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Freedom, Learning, Army

  "Babylon 5". www.imdb.com. 1994–1998.

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• The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

  Adolf Hitler

  Fear, Military, Historical

  Adolf Hitler, General Press (2016). “Mein Kampf: (My Struggle)”, p.95, GENERAL PRESS

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• For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Christian, Fall, Taken

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• Law, without force, is impotent.

  Blaise Pascal

  Law, Lawyer

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• Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally undermine his will to wage war.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Military, War, Enemy

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• Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

  Albert J. Nock

  Useless, Sound, Public Opinion

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• Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Air, Independence

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Arms and the Covenant”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no national security.

  Henry H. Arnold

  Air, Aviation, Modern

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• Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

  Francois Rabelais

  House, Useless, Arms

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• I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

  Paul Nurse

  Views, Humanity, Progressive

  "Sir Paul Nurse - Biographical". "Les Prix Nobel" ("The Nobel Prizes 2001") edited by Tore Frängsmyr, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. 2002.

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• Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.

  Peter Stuyvesant

  Littles, Tomorrow, March

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• I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.

  Lydia Lunch

  Thinking, Names, People

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• Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

  Charles L. Allen

  Looks, Way, Sometimes

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