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Force Quotes by Henry Adams
- American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central…
- The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the…
- Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed…
- At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of education,…
- Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.
- Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but…
- Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
- No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a…
- Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.
- All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction…
- Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard, but by choice,…
- Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute sensibility…
- Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.
- Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.
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- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Poverty comes from Hell. Prosperity comes from Heaven. Adam had complete dominion over the earth and all it contains. A. Adam could… — Benny Hinn
- Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times… — Ansel Adams
- Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and… — Astley Cooper