"True collaborative, nurturing, and safe power is a combining of forces that can only happen on a pretty small scale."
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"Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over."
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"I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one."
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"Nothing is the force that renovates the World."
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"I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred."
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"Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus."
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"The evening is really hard for me. I have to force myself not to eat."
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"Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force."
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"Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus."
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"Traveling is really exhausting. That will force me into retirement."
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"I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge."
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"Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power."
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"When you force sleep, it doesn't happen."
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"When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force."
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"When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand."
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"Everyone on this planet has spirit within them as an all powerful force for good."
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"God brings millions of flowers to bloom without force."
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"We must follow, not force Providence."
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"Ay, Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy."
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"Good reasons must of force give place to better."
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