Forces Quotes
1982 Forces quotes by 1421 unique authors
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There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a…
— Gregory Benford
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I can't find a person without some link to the armed forces!
— Robyn Carr
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Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in…
— Steven Erikson
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The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On the…
— Randolph Bourne
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The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate…
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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The Jews are one of the principle forces attempting to lead the U.S. into the war. The Jews greatest danger to this country lies in…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends
— Cesare Pavese
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There are two words that, when spoken, have the most unfathomable power to completely change your life. Two words which, when they pass your lips,…
— Rhonda Byrne
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The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
— Henri Poincare
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When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.
— Che Guevara
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As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been…
— Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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Jesmyn Ward left her Gulf Coast home for education and experience, but it called her back. It called on her in most painful ways, to…
— Natasha Trethewey
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Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has…
— Roger Penrose
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Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC campaign against apartheid,…
— Edward Said
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Our armed forces are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world…
— Martin Van Creveld
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The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant must he necessarily…
— Alfred Thayer Mahan
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The forces by which the workers are kept in subjugation must be retaliated by force.
— Unknown Author
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There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
— Paul Wellstone
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Yet when ancient forces stir, many things are woken.
— Garth Nix
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The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand…
— Herbert Spencer
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It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be born free but they are…
— Sheila Jeffreys
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The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are not accidental or…
— Marilyn Frye
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Existence is movement. Action is movement. Existence is defined by the rhythm of forces in natural balance. (...) It is our appreciation for dance that…
— Rudolf von Laban
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Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts—mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge that’s generally suppressed…
— Peter Thiel
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