"It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning."
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"I wouldn't like to say that I'm absolutely God conscious. It's like everybody else. We're battling with the forces that are pulling us upwards and downwards at the same time. But basically we all want love, that's what I feel."
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"The sight of a man hath the force of a Lyon."
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"[God is] everything in the creative force."
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"I have to force a smile off my face as I sit limply in my seat... Then, just as I'm congratulating myself for such a stellar plan."
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"He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal."
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"No religion can be built on force."
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"To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression."
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"These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick."
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"The mind is the greatest of all human forces. Control the mind and you control the body."
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"There are many cases around the world in which the presence of UN peace-keeping forces has had a somewhat beneficial effect."
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"Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free."
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"Intellect--brain force."
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"Guilt is the major motivating force in my life."
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"I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers."
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"What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?"
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"I expertly angled my raison bran to accomodate the g-forces."
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"I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved."
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"Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes."
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"Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs."
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