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• This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be done by revolution. It is also the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man and improving him as a rational, moral, and social being.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Mind, Public Opinion

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.324, Cambridge University Press

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• ...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in the use of arms.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Army, Gun, Law

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• Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Player, Champion, Chess

  "How Does the Brain Work?". "NOVA scienceNOW", www.pbs.org. September 14, 2011.

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• Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Eye, Men, Sea

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• One must see in every human being only that which is worthy of praise. When this is done, one can be a friend to the whole human race. If, however, we look at people from the standpoint of their faults, then being a friend to them is a formidable task............ .....Thus is it incumbent upon us, when we direct our gaze toward other people, to see where they excel, not where they fail.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Race, People, Tasks

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• Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy is within you, understand what it is and why you are afraid. Put a face on your fear. When you understand it, and it is no longer vague and shapeless, you will find that your fear is no longer so formidable.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Courage, Fear, Giving

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• Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Believe, Reform, Tasks

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• The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.

  Plutarch

  Food, Army, Order

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• Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.

  Winston Churchill

  Thoughtful, Men, Race

  "Is the Threat of a Nuclear Iran Fallen on Deaf Ears?". www.beliefnet.com.

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• Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries.

  James J. Martin

  Player, Games, Liberty

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• Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Vanity, Names

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.252, Univ of California Press

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• The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Practice, Democracy, Age

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.418, Coventry House Publishing

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• Women power is a formidable force.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Memorable, Women Power, Force

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• It is generally allowed, that no man ever found the happiness of possession proportionate to that expectation which incited his desire, and invigorated his pursuit; nor has any man found the evils of life so formidable in reality, as they were described to him by his own imagination; every species of distress brings with it some peculiar supports, some unforeseen means of resisting, or powers of enduring.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mean, Reality, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.28

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• Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as well as a wonderful writer, peels away the layers to reveal the true Cleopatraa much more interesting woman than the Hollywood version and, as it turns out, a formidable queen after all.

  Evan Thomas

  Queens, Real, Discovery

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• Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Power, Weapons, Calm

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• All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity, in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formidable obstacles, perhaps even death.

  Henri Bergson

  Army, Animal, Men

  Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.224, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Fall, Suffering

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.228, Harvard University Press

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• I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.

  Beryl Markham

  Moving On, Distance, Believe

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• As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dark, Hands, Bridges

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.80, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.

  Beryl Markham

  Distance, Clouds, Years

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.146, Open Road Media

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• But never had he felt more enthralled than he was right now, sitting beside Evie on a weathered old dock, with a blazing afternoon sun, almost brutal in its clarity, bathing everything in pure light. Sweat trickled down his back and chest from the steamy heat, and his entire body pulsed with life. Even his fingertips throbbed. It took all of his formidable self-control to prevent himself from pushing her down on the dock and spreading her legs for his entry.

  Linda Howard

  Light, Self, Sweat

  Linda Howard (2016). “Loving Evangeline”, p.82, HQN Books

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• I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's about knowing when to quit.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Perseverance, Knowing, Quitting

  Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Tea Rose”, p.483, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Royce cast a harsh and anxious look at the prince. “What?” Alric asked. “I thought we discussed the importance of keeping a low profile.” “Oh, please.” The prince waved a hand at the thief. “I don’t think it will get me killed if this monk knows I’m the king. Look at him. I’ve seen drowned rats more formidable.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Kings, Thinking, Hands

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• but the idea of the Dark Lord in possesion of the Deathstick is, I must admit, formidable.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dark, Ideas, Lord

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