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"Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement."
"Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital."
"I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process."
"Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard."
"Always stand by form against force."
"I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized."
"Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues."
"Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?"
"Race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society."
"It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward."
"The hard part about living in the present is it forces you to abandon hope for the future. Thanks for nothing, now."
"It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces."
"Force shites upon Reason's Back."
"No human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion"
"The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is."
"Law, without force, is impotent."
"As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world."
"All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us."
"The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used."
"Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force."
