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“Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.”

Way Writing Mind Mean Soul Body Force Wish Magic Thousand Draws Letters Distance Silent Division Absent Pow Absent Friends

Author:Aaron Hill

“It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.”

Should Humans May Important Reason Individual Force Difficult Growth Principles Depends Civilization Prove Essentials Tasks Limitation Bows Preservation Human Reason

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Truth is the most powerful force on earth because it cannot be changed.”

Earth Force Powerful Changed Truth Is Most Powerful

Book:The One-Minute Businessman's Devotional

Source: The One-Minute Businessman's Devotional

“The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of good, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.”

Force Christ Lord Enemy Supreme Chiefs Our Lord Commanders Jerusalem Lucifer Commander In Chief Babylon

Book:The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Source: The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

“Working within the limits of the medium forces us to change our own limits. Improvisation is not breaking with forms and limitations just to be 'free,' but using them as the very means of transcending ourselves.”

Mean Form Force Limits Mediums Limitation Improvisation Transcending Very Mean

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

“We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate. On the rare occasions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration.”

Feels Happens Action Force Destiny Fate Masters Occasions Our Actions Exhilaration Rare Occasion

Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

“There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first vivid impression! Add no details that shall weaken it! Look first for the big things! 1st. Proportions! 2nd. Values - or masses of light and shade. 3rd. Details that will not spoil the beginnings!”

Firsts Looks Bigs Light Values Force Strength Mass Add Details Impression Proportion Shade Big Things Vitality Vivid Spoil

Author:William Morris Hunt

“If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns.”

Ifs Force Enjoy Gun Sticks Depth Breadth Multi Tasking

Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.”

Force Gone Clear Train Obligation Conditional Bosnians

Author:Warren Christopher

“Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.”

People Young Culture Force Deals Conditions Media Judging Pops Overbearing Celebrity Life

Author:Lady Gaga

“It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action”

Action Force Essentials Offensive Parting Congo Halt

Author:Richard Holbrooke

“Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.”

God Religion Force Ought Worship Inclination Worship God

Book:The New Complete Works of Josephus

Source: The New Complete Works of Josephus

“Movies can be effective in influencing people to think in ways they might not otherwise be exposed to. Social commentary in films is most effective when you're not aware of a soapbox. Making the point without force-feeding the audience is the most desirable approach.”

People Thinking Way Might Film Force Social Audience Influence Approach Exposed Feeding Desirable Commentary Influencing People Soapbox

Author:Walter Koenig

“The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.”

Way Humans Spirit Force Clear Abstract Human Spirit Way Forward

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“Your silent thoughts are like the roots of a plant. They remain hidden in the dark recesses of the earth, but from them stems the whole plant--its life and form, its strength and beauty. From them and through them the plant lives and dies. So, too, your thoughts, although hidden, are your real, vital force.”

Thinking Real Whole Earth Form Dies Force Dark Roots Plant Silent Stem Recess Plant Life Strength And Beauty

Book:The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

Source: The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

“The anti-evolution forces have been searching for a new strategy that would accomplish the same end. That purpose is, if not to get evolution out of the schools altogether, then at least undermine it as much as possible in the minds of students.”

Ifs Mind Has Beens Ends School Purpose Force Students Evolution Strategy Accomplish

Author:Kenneth R. Miller

“What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.”

Self Force Process Common Miracle Sleeves Corrections Revision

Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons.”

Force Lines Rooms Four New York Seasons Bars Locals Meals Lunch Minors Noon Reservations Pinnacle Sierra Napkins Whitney Zenith Four Seasons

Author:Raymond Sokolov

“Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed.”

Men Should Force Mistake Overcoming Stronger Grateful Faults

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.”

World Force Doubt Members Benefits Training Advantage No Doubt Temperance Armed Forces

Author:William Lyon Mackenzie King

“Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued ... The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it in the face of such misery. We may need to wake up our conscience and our conscience must force us to act.”

Thinking Needs May Faces Force Nations Becoming Conscience Wake Up Misery Justify Fatigue Donors

Author:Kofi Annan

“The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a strain of Islamist thinking has developed which, like other totalitarianisms, such as Nazism and Communism, offers its followers a form of redemption through violence.”

“The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody.”

Passion Force Technology Happened Fashion Mirrors Entertainment Instant Museums Participation Fascination Explosions Millennium Exhibitions Mirror Image

Author:Alexander McQueen

“It is clear that no one will achieve any kind of objective through the force of violence, and that no one will make Spaniards yield to threats of guns, whoever may be holding them”

Kind May Force Clear Violence Achieve Gun Threat Objectives Yield Spaniards

Author:Jose Maria Aznar

“There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are the real world, from the ugliest to the most beautiful, everything that has character and expression, from the crudest and most brutal to the gentlest and most delicate; everything that speaks to us in its capacity as life.”

World Real Whole Character Beautiful Law Choices Speak Force Expression Materials Capacity Rhythm Real World Cosmic Delicate Brutal Life Choices

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“Our nation needs the BRAC process. No institution can remain successful if it does not adapt to its constantly changing environment. Our armed forces must adapt to changing global threats, evolving technology and new strategies and structures.”

Ifs Needs Doe Force Nations Process Technology Successful Environment Institutions Strategy Structure Threat Evolve Adaptability Armed Forces Changing Environment

Author:Anthony Principi

“A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.”

Use Force Knowledge Defense Strikes Dark Side Luke Use Of Force Strike Back Anger And Fear Wonderful Children Empire Strikes Back Great Warrior Jedi Knights

Author:Frank Oz

“Reducing hunger should become the driving force for progress and hope...”

Should Force Progress Hunger Driving Reducing Driving Force

Author:Jacques Diouf

“Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of the chosen few, and create for them visions of aethereal beauty? Do landscape painters of genius walk the plains of Heaven? Or is it only vanity that urges him to paint?”

Spiritual Artist Force Heaven Walks Vision Divine Genius Conscious Ears Paint Chosen Painter Vanity Landscape Unconscious Urges Angle Real Beauty Emulation

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to the wine of nature, and was not intoxicating. No counter proof can equal the force of that drawn from His attributes. It is an indecency and a calumny to impute to Christ conduct which requires apology.”

Character Force Christ Risk Rocks Equal Miracle Wine Proof Attributes Apology Calumny

Book:The Evangel: Or The Life of Our Lord in Verse

Source: The Evangel: Or The Life of Our Lord in Verse

“There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.”

Thinking Men Force Support Gender Defense Budgets Gaps Expenditures National Defense Gender Gap

Author:Theodore Stevens

“The resurrection is not a static and an isolated event fixed in the past, but the unleashing of a power and force that takes the form of a death defying love. Resurrection is ever present, constantly accosting us, challenging us, stretching us, cracking us open and seeking to have its way with us in order that we might come to maturity in Christ.”

Way Might Past Form Order Force Christ Challenges Events Seeking Maturity Fixed Resurrection Isolated Stretching Static Defying Unleashing

Author:Frank Griswold

“Concluding a short series on sin: It is appalling to think of a power so strong that it can annihilate with the irresistible force of its grinding heel; but it is inspiring to consider an Almightiness that transforms the works of evil into the hand-maidens of righteousness and converts the sinner into the saint. And it is this latter power which eternal Love possesses and exhibits. He persistently dwells in the sinner until the sinner wakes up in His likeness and is satisfied with it.”

“If they succeed in creating an inclusive structure in virtually any peaceful form, Iraq succeeds. If they fail, the U.S.-led coalition fails almost regardless of its military success and that of the new Iraqi forces, and Iraq will move towards division, paralysis, civil conflict and/or a new strongman.”

Ifs Moving Form Force Failing Military Civilization Succeed Conflict Creating Structure Iraq Peaceful Division Coalitions Paralysis

Author:Anthony H. Cordesman

“Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?”

Artist Force Dangerous Ambition Edges Driving Motive Driving Force

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.”

Force Virtue Conclusion Epigrams Scorpions

Author:Edward Topsell

“The 10th Annual Webby Awards represent an extraordinary opportunity to celebrate the evolution of the web from an esoteric medium to the driving force shaping popular culture, business, and society today, .. As the web enters its second decade as an integral part of everyday life, our expanded categories recognize those who are pushing the web in exciting new directions.”

“The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.”

Force Wealth Ability Levels Technology Depends Capacity Essence Forces Of Nature New Knowledge

Book:The Ultimate Resource 2

Source: The Ultimate Resource 2

“Mojo grace means the shocking benevolence of a mysterious force beyond our comprehension.”

Mean Force Grace Mysterious Shocking Comprehension Benevolence Mojo

Author:Rob Brezsny

“Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and blue all over.”

Giving Mean Force White Powerful Color Taste Red Blue Colour Reserves Really Mean Good Taste Climax Red White And Blue

Author:John F. Carlson

“This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors obtainable, and squeezed them out upon the canvas to give it 'full force,' would be the greatest master, instead of being merely extravagant.”

Men Giving Art Different Would Be Force Color He Man Masters Canvas Conservation Masterpiece Being Me Extravagant Different Colors

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.”

Real Action Individual Force Effort Acting Exercise Spring Energetic Spurs Real Freedom

Author:Anna Brackett

“There will be no recognition of Israel and there will be no security for the occupation and colonization forces. Resistance will remain our strategic option.”

Force Security Israel Resistance Recognition Occupation Strategic Colonization

Author:Khaled Mashal

“Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers”

People Giving Doe Strong Force Power Rights Security Politician Authority Police Human Rights Oppression Regulation Violation Repression Police Force Security Systems

Author:Hanan Ashrawi

“All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.”

Action Science Force Understanding Natural Perfect Moral Technology Achieve Science And Technology

Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“Regarding ego force, we don't always like people who have it. If you have it, and need to be liked, you ought to consider letting most of it come out the end of your brush.”

People Ifs Needs Ends Force Ought Ego Brushes

Author:Robert Genn

“So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or modern, moves us aesthetically only in so far as it possesses a force over and beyond its aspect.”

Long Art Moving Force Nature Deals Emotion Modern Painting Highest Aspect Ancient Objectives Aesthetic

Author:Lawren Harris

“There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus annoyance. To the viewer who has reached that level of awareness, my work is no longer abstract, but very real.”

Real Force Levels Emotion Awareness Perception Abstract Contrast Viewers Versus Living Things Opposing Annoyance

Author:Eugene J. Martin

“Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception of a site.”

Artist Order Force Challenges Type Perception Chaos Site Good Art Good Artist

Author:Wolf Kahn

“Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to suffer from neglect, a potential addition to the destructive forces of a community. . . . The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of this array of children no less than in our great material affairs.”

Ifs Children Suffering Force Nations Interest Community Materials Involved Capacity Affair Welfare Destructive Enlightened Neglect Citizenship Protective

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

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