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1402 Forced quotes by 1107 unique authors
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Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths, and…
— Boris Johnson
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Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This…
— Danny Baker
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In China, I witnessed forced abortions and forced sterilizations performed on women who were told that the children they were carrying were 'illegal'. I went…
— Steven W. Mosher
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As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps, operating to…
— Aberjhani
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The bottom line is that the true test of one's commitment to freedom of association doesn't come when he allows people to associate in ways…
— Walter E. Williams
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Lately even the harshest critics of President Bush have been forced to admit maybe he's right about freedom's march around the globe. What if we…
— Brian Williams
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The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall…
— George Will
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Forced to define 'irrational subconscious,' I would say that it is a small padded room inside all of us, where the only furnishing is a…
— Stephen King
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I think the reason people investigate the paranormal is because we are trying to overcome the mystery of death. That in and of itself is…
— Zak Bagans
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Throughout all the pain of enslavement and despotism, of inquisition, forced conversion, and massacre, the Jewish people has carried in its heart the yearning for…
— Berl Katznelson
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The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather…
— Dave Barry
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Your goal should be something that feels really right, not forced. Make sure your goal resonates with what’s true for you.
— Jude Bijou
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If I had a reality show, it would probably be called 'Keeping Fit with Jesse Tyler Ferguson' because then I'd be forced to hit the…
— Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its…
— Joseph Addison
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It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and down? Human nature is disposed…
— Mencius
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die…
— Ingrid Newkirk
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Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?
— Albert Einstein
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... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
— Alice Walker
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Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.
— John Donne
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Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other-at least as much as love poetry-and cannot be forced because then it becomes vulgar and unacceptable.…
— Pablo Neruda
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Because you know how you say I've got to really get down and really do some training and then of course, you never do or…
— David Carradine
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Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is…
— Rita Dove
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