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Force Quotes by George Santayana
- Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.
- Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.
- Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light…
- It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed…
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- Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. — Lord Acton
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