"Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force……" — Denis Diderot

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• We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence. — Paul Auster
• Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause… — Mahmoud Abbas
• Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines… — Karen Armstrong
• A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each… — Rudolf Arnheim
• Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The… — Saint Augustine
• The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own… — Paul Auster
• We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces… — Ibrahim Babangida
• The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in… — Charles Babbage
• Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. — Lord Acton
• The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the… — Lord Acton
• I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at… — Julianna Baggott
• To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to… — James A. Baldwin

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