"A form comes out of a combination of force and matter."
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"They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean."
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"Never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do."
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"The people who get the ability to use force have to be watched carefully by civilians to make sure they don't use it excessively."
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"You sometimes have to join forces with those you'd rather avoid."
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"Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable."
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"We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over."
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"The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-co-operation between the forces of darkness and those of light."
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"To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice."
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"Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world."
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"Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it."
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"My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force."
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"In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force."
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"The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth."
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"Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it."
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"History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force."
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"Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone."
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"Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used."
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"Love is the humblest yet the most powerful force that the human being has."
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"Love has more force than a besieging army."
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