Forces Quotes

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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the… — Erica Jong
... every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations… — Sigmund Freud
The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from… — Sigmund Freud
When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you… — James A. Baldwin
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his… — Euripides
On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that the quality of… — Norman Cousins
If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man… — William Jennings Bryan
The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart. — Kabir
The universe forces those who live in it to understand it. — Carl Sagan
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. — Malcolm De Chazal
The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good… — Paul Tillich
The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last… — David Mamet
Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with… — William O. Douglas
The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. — Susan Sontag
Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The… — Susan Sontag
The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet… — Milton Friedman
A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the… — Mao Zedong
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on… — Claude Levi-Strauss
The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces. — Leon Panetta
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that… — Flannery O'Connor
Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection. — Richard Leakey
Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces.… — Aneurin Bevan
It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran. — Ehud Olmert
We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life is the common… — Thomas Berry
...Jabotinsky insisted that all energies be expended to force the Congress to join the boycott movement. Nothing less than a 'merciless fight' would be acceptable,… — Ze'ev Jabotinsky

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