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“The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a reciprocal influence, each moderating what is too excessive and therefore unlikely to live in the other, creating a being apart who easily arrives at domination, for nothing can stop such a man...It is the eternal opposition of Shylock and Jessica. It is the illogical and monstrous mixture of the rarest qualities with the most abject defects, mixture of irresistible force and of irremediable weakness.”

“Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.”

Mean Stills Force Elements Pressure Inevitable Diplomacy

Author:Dennis A. Ross

“The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its own sake and for the element of unpredictable perturbation and of metamorphosis which it introduces into the domain of representation; for each image on each occasion forces you to revise the entire Universe.”

Use Universe Force Elements Sake Vices Occasions Introducing Representation Unpredictable Domain Surrealism Metamorphosis Provocation Impassioned

Author:Louis Aragon

“The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And the struggle against these elements cannot be waged with propaganda and agitation alone. ... The struggle must also be waged by applying force and compulsion.”

Force Struggle Military Dangerous Elements Propaganda Flood Petty Compulsion Anarchism Bourgeois Suppression Bourgeoisie Agitation

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“The world in the past has been ruled by force, and man has dominated over woman by reason of his more forceful and aggressive qualities both of body and mind. But the balance is already shifting—force is losing its weight and mental alertness, intuition, and the spiritual qualities of love and service, in which woman is strong, are gaining ascendancy. Hence the new age will be an age less masculine, and more permeated with the feminine ideals—or, to speak more exactly, will be an age in which the masculine and feminine elements of civilization will be more evenly balanced.”

“One of the unfortunate consequences of the intellectualization of man's spiritual life was that the word "spirit" was lost and replaced by mind or intellect, and that the element of vitality which is present in "spirit" was separated and interpreted as an independent biological force. Man was divided into a bloodless intellect and a meaningless vitality. The middle ground between them, the spiritual soul, in which vitality and intentionality are united, was dropped.”

Source: Writings on religion

“I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge.”

Force Elements Criminals Comparison Saddam Insulted Underworld Depraved Rouge Khmer Rouge Vietcong

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world civilization: the primacy of production, the continual growth of the power of the State and the formation of the National State, the autonomous development of technics, etc. These, among others - far more than the ownership of the means of production or any totalitarian doctrine - are the constitutive elements of the modern world. So long as these elements continue to be taken for granted, the world is standing still.”

“An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or a couple of pauses close together, contrasted with a longer unit of grammar.”

Mean Together Reading Force Clear Couple Elements Units Pauses Grammar Underestimated Reading Aloud

Author:Robert Pinsky

“Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals. We look away from government for relief, because we know that force (legalized) invades the personal liberty of man, seizes upon the natural elements and intervenes between man and natural laws; from this exercise of force through governments flows nearly all the misery, poverty, crime and confusion existing in society.”

“Which was first, Matter or Force? If we think on this question, we shall find that we are unable to conceive of matter without force, or force without matter. When God created the elements of which the earth is composed, He created certain wondrous forces, which are set free and become evident when matter acts on matter.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Matter Earth Certain Force Elements Evident Wondrous

Book:A course of six lectures on the various forces of Matter, and their relations to each other ... Edited by W. Crookes. With numerous illustrations

Source: A course of six lectures on the various forces of Matter, and their relations to each other ... Edited by W. Crookes. With numerous illustrations

“It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.”

Should Hands Seems Force Nature Fire Nice Strange Elements Wings Storm Butterfly Gross Monstrous Woven Nice Work

Book:Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]

Source: Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]

“Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as such actions are our duty.”

Action Law Force Effort Duty Elements Absorbing

Author:Roman Dmowski

“Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin.”

Earth Life Is Force Elements Skins Altered

Author:Frans Lanting

“All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creators power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements.”

Stills Fall Force Blood Scene Elements Creator Coward Display Irresistible Grandeur Trembling Niagara Irresistible Force Illusions Of Grandeur

Book:The Life and Adventures of J. J. Audubon ... Edited, from Materials Supplied by His Widow, by Robert Buchanan. Second Edition. [With Portraits.]

Source: The Life and Adventures of J. J. Audubon ... Edited, from Materials Supplied by His Widow, by Robert Buchanan. Second Edition. [With Portraits.]

“If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.”

Ifs Two Lying Force Struggle Elements Solutions

Author:Benito Mussolini

“Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings increase. Therefore the extraordinary is always the measure of all greatness. And the creative element always remains the value superior to all others and the mind superior to our minds.”

Mind Feelings Faces Values Force Creativity Creative Greatness Elements Increase Remains Extraordinary Superiors

Author:Stefan Zweig

“Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, because it loves the elemental human being who grows to resemble it, the intangible element. Sometimes, and these are the most astonishing moments in world history, the thread of fate falls into the hands of a complete nobody but only for a twitching minute.”

“As the brain of man is the speck of dust in the universe that thinks, so the leaves—the fern and the needled pine and the latticed frond and the seaweed ribbon—perceive the light in a fundamental and constructive sense. … Their leaves see the light, as my eyes can never do. … They impound its stellar energy, and with that force they make life out of the elements.”

Thinking Men Light Eye Universe Energy Force Brain Elements Fundamentals Dust Perceive Constructive Ribbons Specks Seaweed Stellar Ferns

Author:Donald C. Peattie

“The people designing the weapons literally often didn't know how they were being handled in the field by the Air Force - and a lot of people in the Air Force didn't understand some of the dangers. There's a very strong element of madness in this.”

People Knows Strong Force Know How Air Danger Design Fields Elements Weapons Madness Very Strong Air Force

Author:Eric Schlosser

“Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.”

“Macroscopic objects, as we see them all around us, are governed by a variety of forces, derived from a variety of approximations to a variety of physical theories. In contrast, the only elements in the construction of black holes are our basic concepts of space and time. They are, thus, almost by definition, the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe.”

Universe Force Black Space Perfect Objects Theory Elements Concepts Definitions Holes Variety Construction Contrast Time And Space Black Hole Approximation

Author:Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

“If the strong nuclear force were slightly weaker, multi-proton nuclei would not hold together. Hydrogen would be the only element in the universe.”

Ifs Would Be Together Universe Strong Force Elements Nuclear Hydrogen Nucleus Proton

Book:The Fingerprint of God: Recent Scientific Discoveries Reveal the Unmistakable Identity of the Creat

Source: The Fingerprint of God: Recent Scientific Discoveries Reveal the Unmistakable Identity of the Creat

“Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith can command. Activity is often at the expense of more solid, useful elements, and generally to the total neglect of prayer. To be too busy with God's work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding, and many people have walked therein to the hurt of their immortal souls.”

“As you can imagine when you have to summon a force like that together, the opposing elements are pretty freaking gnarly. I would think of those pioneer movies where they've got the cook and the ladies loading the guns and firing at the surrounded wagons. I don't put Coulson in that category, I think he is on the upper tier of people who come to scrap at situations like that but everybody's involved.”

People Thinking Together Force Situation Imagine Involved Elements Gun Cooks Categories Pioneers Opposing Scrap Firing Wagons Gnarly

Author:Clark Gregg

“The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.”

Thinking Way Spirit Force Principles Psychology Morality Elements Essence Instinct Revenge Metaphysics Our Thoughts Way Of Thinking Transcendental

Book:Nietzsche and Philosophy

Source: Nietzsche and Philosophy

“Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations.”

Government Political Force Nations Leader Position Elements Election Representatives Political Leaders

Book:The World As I See It

Source: The World As I See It

“A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner.”

Men May Force Quality Elements Weak Partners Destructive Feminine Despise Masculine

Author:David Deida

“Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. ... the universal gravity of bodies, ... is merely the reverse or shadow of that which really moves nature. Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.”

World Heart May Body Moving Universe Force Elements Shadow Direct Universal Driven Gravity Reverse Fragments Subtlety Nature Love Convergence

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“If you're with a good band and everybody's from the old school, it's different. When you're in your element, you're in your element and things just come. You don't have to drag them out or force them out. They just happen.”

Ifs Different Happens School Force Band Elements Drag Old School Good Bands

Author:Van Morrison

“I think its one of the great principles. The element of surprise, I mean, you could take a force that's not nearly as strong and with the element of surprise you could wipe out a much more powerful force.”

Thinking Mean Strong Force Powerful Principles Elements Surprise Wipe Element Of Surprise

Author:Donald Trump

“Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.”

Sometimes Literature Force Elements Cooking Aggressive Feeding

Author:Nigella Lawson

“I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.”

Want Believe Persons Bigs Government Force Liberty Failing Succeed Elements Organization Pursuit I Want You Pursuit Of Happiness Big Government

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.”

Important Values Force Elements Criminals Artistic Questioning

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self love.”

“The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.”

Kind Force Social Effects Poet Reader Elements Stagnant

Author:Denise Levertov

“As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and on the other hand, the sure flight of the birds recalled the words spoken by Christ: Not a sparrow shall fall on the ground without your Father: then, all at once, I felt how great and how small I was; then did those two mighty forces, pride and humility, happily unite in friendship.”

Two Hands Fall Father Force Felt Christ My Own Sea Humility Pride Battle Elements Bird Flight Nothingness Sparrows Forsaken Pride And Humility

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt to exert too much control over essentially uncontrollable forces. There will always be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there until, as Lowell put it, the watch is taken from the wrist.”

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness