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Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in… — George Bernard Shaw
All successful newpapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon… — H. L. Mencken
The mixing of government and religion can be a threat to free government, even if no one is forced to participate.... When the government puts… — Harry A. Blackmun
It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert irrigation water to… — Lester R. Brown
Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in… — Alcuin
As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwise, many began to… — Vance Packard
At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had only one teacher,… — Bertrand Russell
Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in nature,… — Baron d'Holbach
Over the years, we have lost millions of decent paying jobs. These trade agreements have forced wages down in America so the average worker in… — Hillary Clinton
'Extinction' issue. Save the species for whom??? Humans' convenience, of course! Individuals of the species are snatched from their homes/family/habitat/held in captivity/forced to mate at… — Adela Popescu
The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole. — Arnold J. Toynbee
Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to… — Lajos Kossuth
We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by… — Michel de Montaigne
Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess… — Baltasar Gracian
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate… — R. Buckminster Fuller
The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves… — Hannah Whitall Smith
Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. — Eric Hoffer
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to… — Alexander Pope
Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness. — Stephen Levine
It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity. — Gustave Courbet
Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can offer you neither… — Giuseppe Garibaldi
Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the… — Prince Charles
When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen… — Gary Zukav

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