Force Quotes - Page 40

• It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

  William H. Seward

  Conflict, Endure, Irrepressible

  Speech, Rochester, N.Y., 25 Oct. 1858

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• Our losses have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.

  Karl Donitz

  War, Loss, Air

  Said on May 24, 1943. "A Time for Courage: The Royal Air Force in the European War, 1939-1945". Book by John Terraine, p. 449, 1985.

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• It would have been easier to fight alone with inadequate forces than to have to accept...responsibility for our ally's lack of fighting qualities and dubious loyalty.

  Albert Kesselring

  Loyalty, War, Responsibility

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• For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy out of the strongest possible natural positions.

  William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

  War, Enemy, World

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• Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

  Ralph Nader

  Struggle, Vacation, Justice

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• Mostly your love is passionate force. But when this passionate force turns itself to be a compassionate force under the guidance of compassionate intelligence, that is where one becomes brahm giani. One knows all, one sees all, one says all.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Passionate

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• The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

  Anaxagoras

  Stars, Science, Hot

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• None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted a loss of 600,000 men between 1965 and 1968...Moreover, by about 1970 at least 80% of the day-to-day combat in South Vietnam was being carried on by regular NVA troops...Genuine black-pajama southern guerrillas had been decimated and amounted to no more than 20% of the communist fighting forces.

  Chalmers Johnson

  War, Loss, Fighting

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• It seems to me the worst possible concept, militarily, that we would simply stay there, resisting aggression, so-called...it seems to me that the way to "resist aggression" is to destroy the potentialities of the aggressor to continually hit you...When you say, merely, "we are going to continue to fight aggression," that is not what the enemy is fighting for. The enemy is fighting for a very definite purpose-to destroy our forces.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Fighting, Enemy

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• Empowerment is the inner joy of knowing that external force isn't necessary to be at harmony with oneself.

  Wayne Dyer

  Knowing, Joy, Empowerment

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.219, Hay House, Inc

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• Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Bullying, Abuse

  Twitter post from Apr 10, 2014

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• I lifted my right foot to step up into the bus and collided head on with an invisible force that entered my awareness like a silently exploding stick of dynamite blowing the door of my usual consciousness open and off its hinges, splitting me in two. In the gaping space that appeared, what I had previously called "me" was forcefully pushed out of its usual location inside me into a new location that was approximately a foot behind and to the left of my head. "I" was now behind my body, looking out at the world without using the body's eyes.

  Suzanne Segal

  Eye, Doors, Two

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• Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Opinion, Enviromental

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1974). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.

  Sigmund Freud

  Reality, Wish, Fulfillment

  Sigmund Freud (1973). “Abstracts of the Standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Environmental historians . . . insist that we have got to go . . . down to the earth itself as an agent and presence in history. Here we will discover even more fundamental forces at work over time. And to appreciate those forces we must now and then get out of parliamentary chambers, out of birthing rooms and factories, get out of doors altogether, and ramble into fields, woods, and the open air. It is time we bought a good set of walking shoes, and we cannot avoid getting some mud on them.

  Donald Worster

  Air, Doors, Shoes

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• When you say "I am," the words that follow are summoning creation with a mighty force, because you are declaring it to be fact.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Facts, Creation

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• Expectation is a powerful attractive force.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Powerful, Law Of Attraction, Expectations

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse

  William James

  Mean, Men, Absence

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• That has been my personal relationship with God-a connection with the powerful, loving, wise energy in all of us, in all creation. It is the life force itself. We can all have contact with it each moment in our lives, but it takes commitment and practice. We must be willing to move through all our deepest fears, doubts, and misunderstandings.

  Shakti Gawain

  God, Wise, Powerful

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• God will not force himself upon us against our will. If we want his love, we need to believe in him. We need to make a definite, positive act of commitment and surrender to the love of God. No one can do it for us.

  Billy Graham

  God, Believe, Commitment

  Billy Graham (2003). “Breakfast with Billy Graham: 120 Daily Readings”, Testament

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• It is no secret that any talented player must in his soul be an artist, and what could be dearer to his heart and soul than the victory of the subtle forces of reason over crude material strength! Probably everyone has his own reason for liking the King`s Gambit, but my love for it can be seen in precisely those terms.

  David Bronstein

  Kings, Heart, Artist

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• On what basis should our policy rest? It should rest on our own strength, and that means regeneration through one's own efforts. We are not alone; all the countries and people in the world opposed to imperialism are our friends. Nevertheless, we stress regeneration through our own efforts. Relying on the forces we ourselves organize, we can defeat all Chinese and foreign reactionaries.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Stress, Struggle

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.101, Lulu.com

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• Just your laughter will be enough to prevent the war. Your celebration, your dance, will be enough to prevent the war. Your ecstasy, your meditation, will create a tremendous force which will be far higher because it is life-affirmative.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, War, Meditation

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• I believe that all centers that appear in space - whether they originate in biology, in physical forces, in pure geometry, in color - are alike simply in that they all animate space. It is this animated space that has its functional effect upon the world, that determines the way things work, that governs the presence of harmony and life.

  Christopher Alexander

  Believe, Origin Of Life, Color

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• One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Separation, Again And Again, Repeats

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