"In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand."
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"There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many."
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"The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force."
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"No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us."
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"He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force."
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"Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it."
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"Nothing made by brute force lasts."
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"Love is the subtlest force in the world."
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"God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken."
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"The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself."
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"The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains."
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"I would like to be a positive force for young girls."
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"If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, inTruro."
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"Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force."
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"Not vain the weakest, if their force unite."
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"[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil."
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"Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life."
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"He that I am reading seems always to have the most force."
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"You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done."
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"Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true."
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