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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
Cities and City Life
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
Words
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
Strength
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
Masses
Epicurus

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No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.
Inequality
Henry P. Fairchild

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Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them.
Decisions
Oliver A. Fick

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Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
Abstinence
W. C. Fields

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Don't fight forces, use them.
Architecture
R. Buckminster Fuller

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.
Reason
Gaius C. Gallus

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
Action
John Galsworthy

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Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
Faith
Mahatma Gandhi

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Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
Force
Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.
Selfishness
Hailliard

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There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
Greatness
William F. Halsey

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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
Friends and Friendship
William Hazlitt

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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
Leaders and Leadership
George Herbert

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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease
Disease
Hippocrates

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Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.
Events
Edward Hoagland

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Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
War
Thomas Hobbes

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Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.
Unity
Homer

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John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!
Uncategorised
Andrew Jackson

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Ideas are, in truth, force.
Ideas
Henry James

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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
Ideas
William James

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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
Evil
William James

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