"Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms."
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"I hope I shall never see the day when the Force of Right is deprived of the Right of Force."
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"We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction"
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"Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system."
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"If someone takes responsibility without force, that is love."
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"And yet, for some time now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least?"
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"It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no."
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"I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in."
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"Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces."
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"But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned."
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"All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination."
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"There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems."
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"Force cannot give right."
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"There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute."
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"Anger and desire for revenge can be a great motivating force. It's either that or you allow it to affect your confidence and that can be crippling."
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"He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time"
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"Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice."
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"Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success."
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"Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver"
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"I think fate is massive, and it's never really had its place among forces we respect as having control over us."
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