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Persuasion is better than force.
Persuasion
Proverb

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
Heart
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
Skill
John Ruskin

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Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
Reason
Bertrand Russell

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Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will.
Force
Saying

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Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.
Hatred
William Shakespeare

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]
Love
William Shakespeare

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Empires built on force will always be destroyed. Those built on trust in Christ will remain.
Empire
Joseph R. Sizoo

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How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
Bigotry
Logan Pearsall Smith

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A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.
Ability
Thomas Somerville

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What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Leaders and Leadership
Sophocles

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I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
Possibilities
Steven Spielberg

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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
Money
Roger Starr

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We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
Complaints and Complaining
Laurence Sterne

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What force is more potent than love?
Love
Igor Stravinsky

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
Lies and Lying
Publilius Syrus

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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
Kindness
Publilius Syrus

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Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.
Uncategorised
Henry David Thoreau

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Thoughts are forces.
Thoughts and Thinking
Ralph Waldo Trine

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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
Force
Leon Trotsky

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I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
Principles
Mark Twain

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Need is the driving force, Need makes people better -- luck only makes them worse.
Necessity
Source Unknown

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Like a ball bated back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.
Conflict
Yogabindu Upanishad

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The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
Fame
Gloria Vanderbilt

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.
Freedom
Voltaire

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun