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Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“Between 1831 and 1891, US armed forces - usually the Marines - invaded Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, Colombia, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Brazil, Haiti, Argentina, and Chile a total of thirty-one times, a fact not many of us are informed about in school. The Marines intermittently occupied Nicaragua form 1909 to 1933, Mexico from 1914 to 1919, and Panama from 1903 to 1914. To 'restore order' the Marines occupied Haiti from 1915 to 1934, killing over two thousand Haitians who resisted 'pacification.'”

“One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor - backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. 'Old money' is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession.”

Children Littles Political Force Generations Gun Built Female Labor Prison Fortune Slave Possession Dirty Immigrants Thug Militia Child Labor Old Money Scabs Slave Labor Dirty Money

Author:Michael Parenti

“The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.”

World Giving Art Soul Jobs Poetry Force Position Objects Poet Habit Dues Strikes Invisible Visible Tragic Unusual Glue

Author:Jean Cocteau

“Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity, which makes it return. The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is also reading and recitation: participation. The poet creates it; the people, by recitation, re-create it. Poet and reader are two moments of a single reality.”

Source: The Bow and the Lyre: The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History

“To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces ... The concept of allusion or analogue is totally inadequate. To Dante these other texts are the organic context of identity. They are as directly about life as life is about them.”

Life Is Poetry Literature Force Identity Concepts Naked Thinker Inadequate Allusion Analogue

Author:George Steiner

“If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe, cured you, than that you had three idiotic doctors diagnose you. ... I taught physics to pre-med students who became doctors. Not all of them are smart, I assure you.”

Ifs Believe Persons Universe Three Force Students Taught Smart Doctors Creator Physics Invisible Idiotic Pseudoscience Meds

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Sin is the second most powerful force in the universe, for it sent Jesus to the cross. Only one force is greater-the love of God.”

Universe Jesus Force Sin Powerful Greater Crosses God Love Most Powerful

Book:Hope for Each Day Signature Edition: Words of Wisdom and Faith

Source: Hope for Each Day Signature Edition: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“This independent Negro movement is able to intervene with terrific force upon the general social and political life of the nation, despite the fact that it is waged under the banner of democratic rights ... [and] is able to exercise a powerful influence upon the revolutionary proletariat, that it has got a great contribution to make to the development of the proletariat in the United States, and that it is in itself a constituent part of the struggle for socialism.”

“It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper.”

Knows May Pain Humanity Force Doubt Ultimate Green Philosopher Deeper Burned Veils Imposing Profundity Firewood

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Love is scary because it pulls you in with an intense force, a supermassive black hole which looks like nothing from the outside but from the inside challenges every reasonable thing you know. You lose yourself, like I lost myself, in the warmest of annihilations.”

Knows Looks Lost Force Black Loses Challenges Love Is Scary Holes Intense Reasonable Annihilation Losing Yourself Black Hole Lost Myself

Author:Matt Haig

“I think for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.”

Thinking Humans Force Emotion Accepting Normal Human Emotions

Author:Koren Zailckas

“These humans are only of flesh, of mud, and I suggest there is one force stronger than their zeal for God: their own self-righteousness! We will make them proud, pure in their own eyes, vindictive, unjust judges over each other, and stir up such a noise among them that the simplest prayer will not be uttered!”

Humans Self Eye Force Prayer Judging Proud Pure Stronger Flesh Noise Righteousness Unjust Mud Simplest Zeal Self Righteousness Vindictive

Book:Piercing the Darkness: A Novel

Source: Piercing the Darkness: A Novel

“Every time you encounter something that forces you to “handle it,” your self-esteem is raised considerably. You learn to trust that you will survive, no matter what happens. And in this way your fears are diminished immeasurably.”

Way Self Matter Happens Force Self Esteem No Matter What Raised Handle Esteem Encounters

Author:Susan Jeffers

“We become powerful in the face of our fears when we have a sense that we make a difference in this world. We are all meaningful participants in this Universe and worthy of giving and receiving love. Some affirmations of purpose are: I know that I count and I act as though I do. I spread warmth and love everywhere I go. I am a healing force in the Universe.”

“When the back-to-the-cities trend started taking root, albeit very unevenly, cities were so glad to finally land deals that they routinely overpaid, not having a solid grasp of the demographic and market forces they should have been channeling instead of subsidizing. It’s especially true for retail and entertainment projects, which generate very poor-quality jobs. I have yet to find a city that has figured out how to ‘take the foot off the pedal’ and stop over-subsidizing, even when gentrification becomes a problem.”

“Persistence is the most powerful force on earth, it can move mountains.”

Earth Moving Force Powerful Mountain Persistence Most Powerful Move Mountains

Author:Albert Einstein

“On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.”

“The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.”

Doe Language Force Rejecting Swallowing

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A soul connection not only inspires us to expand, but also forces us to confront whatever stands in the way of that expansion.”

Way Soul Force Inspire Connections Expansion

Book:Love and Awakening: Discovering the Sacred Path of Intimate Relationship

Source: Love and Awakening: Discovering the Sacred Path of Intimate Relationship

“I believe in absolute freedom of conscience for all men and equality of all churches, all sects and all beliefs before the law as a matter of right and not as a matter of favor. I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof I believe that no tribunal of any church has any power to make any decree of any force in the law of the land, other than to establish the status of its own communicants within its own church.”

“Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth century; a theology which regarded Christianity as an admirable auxiliary to the police force, and a principle of decorum and of cohesion in society, but which carefully banished from it all enthusiasm, veiled or attenuated all its mysteries, and virtually reduced it to an authoritative system of moral philosophy.”

“[T]he bill exceeds the rightful authority to which governments are limited by the essential distinction between civil and religious functions, and violates in particular the article of the Constitution of the United States which declares that Congress shall make no law respecting a religious establishment.... This particular church, therefore, would so far be a religious establishment by law, a legal force and sanction being given to certain articles in its constitution and administration.”

“He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and do their very utmost for them. He must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form; he must feel the whole force of the difficulty which the true view of the subject has to encounter and dispose of; else he will never really possess himself of the portion of truth which meets and removes that difficulty.”

Knows Feels Believe Persons Whole Able Form Force Views Atheism Subjects Argument Difficulty Positive Atheism Encounters Remove Portions Earnest Plausible Persuasive

Author:John Stuart Mill

“Figures cannot calculate the amount collected by those public and private robbers: it is more than would liberate every slave in the United States; it would pay the British debt! They say, We do not force people to give. I see no difference between forcing a man out of his money, at the mouth of a pistol, and forcing it from by trick and cunning; the crime is the same.”

People Men Giving States Force Differences United Pay United States Atheism Crime Figures Amount Mouths Slave British Positive Atheism Debt Tricks Cunning Robbers Pistols

Author:Anne Royall

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