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There is a thing inherent and natural which existed before heaven and earth. Motionless and fathomless, It stands alone and never changes; It pervades everywhere… — Laozi
When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you. — Jeffrey Wright
Will we rise to the challenge and prove our capacity for genuine altruism by ending our ruthless exploitation of the species in our power, not… — Peter Singer
Knowledge itself is a neutral tool that can be used for good or evil. Wisdom, in contrast, always directs us toward happiness. The task of… — Daisaku Ikeda
We don’t have to do a bunch of things to figure out how to win the Ryder Cup. Just go play golf. ... I’m a… — Jack Nicklaus
The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along. — Alain de Botton
All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, Karloff, myself and all the others. They all won the audience's… — Lon Chaney, Jr.
For every woman and girl violently attacked, we reduce our humanity. For every woman forced into unprotected sex because men demand this, we destroy dignity… — Nelson Mandela
Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience. — Dietrich von Hildebrand
One good thing that comes from living the nomadic life demanded by an expedition is that one sheds the fake skin donned from living too… — Karen Hawkins
Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words. — William S. Burroughs
I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in Saudi Arabia until… — Hannah Simone
I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced… — Alma Katsu
People often say that blindness sharpens hearing, but I don't think this is so. My ears were hearing no better, but I was making better… — Jacques Lusseyran
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at… — Bertrand Russell
Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to place… — Swami Vivekananda
In New York, Catholic groups have forced an art gallery to shut down an exhibition of a six-foot image of Jesus in chocolate. So, the… — Bill Maher
Charles Kernaghan is a legitimate American hero... Through his determination he has forced the leadership in our country and many other countries around the world… — Bernie Sanders
The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes have been frustrated… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the… — David O. McKay
When children are allowed to help make family decisions, they tend to be much more supportive and happier with family life. Also when allowed to… — Rudolf Dreikurs
What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me. — Win Butler
I know that my Republican colleagues are as ashamed as I am that the United States is forced to borrow over $1 trillion from foreign… — Dennis Cardoza
In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film… — Fredric Jameson

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