"Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?"
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"With difficulty he is beaten who can estimate his own forces and those of his enemy."
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"Organizations are no longer built on force, but on trust."
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"The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals."
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"The great universe is filled with an abundance of all things, filled to overflowing. All there is, is in her, waiting only for the touch of the right forces to cast them forth."
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"Nature has always had more force than education."
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"It's better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances."
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"The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer."
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"A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations."
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"Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change."
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"You know what the most destructive force in the universe is? Regret."
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"Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything."
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"The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death."
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"It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are."
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"Global market forces will sort out those companies that do not have sound corporate governance."
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"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal."
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"Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche."
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"Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity."
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"If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you."
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"But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force."
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