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“The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.”

“Jew and Gentile are two worlds, between you Gentiles and us Jews there lies an unbridgeable gulf...There are two life forces in the world Jewish and Gentile...I do not believe that this primal difference between Gentile and Jew is reconcilable...The difference between us is abysmal...You might say: 'Well, let us exist side by side and tolerate each other. We will not attack your morality, nor you ours.' But the misfortune is that the two are not merely different; they are opposed in mortal enmity. No man can accept both, or, accepting either, do otherwise than despise the other.”

Men World Believe Wells Two Different Might Lying Force Sides Differences Accepting Morality Jew Mortals Misfortunes Despise Tolerate Primal Enmity Two Worlds Gentiles Two Lives

Author:Maurice Samuel

“The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.”

Giving Believe Government Might Force Projects Don't Believe Immoral

Author:Randall Terry

“I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.”

People Knows Way Might Force Danger Wake Up Threat Everyday Conviction Despise Way To Live

Author:Wole Soyinka

“There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be in Iraq. Some of the higher end predictions we have been hearing recently, such as the notion that it will take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to provide stability in post- Iraq, are wildly off the mark. It is hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army — hard to imagine.”

“Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.”

Firsts Mean Ends Might Force Moral Enemy Air Economic Achieve Military Possibility Direct Destruction Opposition Centre Battlefields Air Force Indirect Air Power Hopping

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“We might do well to stay home a few days and walk over the fields, or to stand in the shelter of the barn door and reflect upon the relentless and yet benevolent forces of Mother Nature. The laws of nature are relentless. They can never be disobeyed without exacting a penalty. Yet they are benevolent, for when they are understood and obeyed, nature yields up the abundance that blesses those who understand and obey.”

Wells Home Might Law Mother Force Nature Walks Doors Fields Understood Abundance Bless Yield Shelter Penalties Laws Of Nature Relentless Mother Nature Benevolent Barns

Author:Wheeler McMillen

“Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.”

Ifs Might Force Ability Power Position Coerce

Book:The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle: How to Become a Servant Leader

Source: The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle: How to Become a Servant Leader

“What gets frustrating for some people is the fact that you might get very high, but you find yourself pulled down again. There are forces of illusion or maya that cause us to make mistakes.”

People Facts Might Force Causes Mistake Ignorance Illusion Making Mistakes Finding Yourself Frustrating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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 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

“Unity of command is essential to the economy of time. Warfare in the field was like a siege: by directing all one's force to a single point a breach might be made, and the equilibrium of opposition destroyed.”

Made War Might Force Economy Fields Essentials Unity Command Destroyed Opposition Warfare Equilibrium Breach Siege

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon, on which I am mounted, see how he bends his once stiff neck to his rider, champing his checked bit and pawing the dust, impatient to leap around the globe. Genius is prescient, foresees its own might. Man is striving through these iron-ribbed, steam-sped hippogriffs, to recover his lost ubiquity and omnipotence, and threatens soon to grasp in his ample palm, and fix with flaming eye-ball, the elemental forces!”

Men Way Might Eye Lost Force Bits Genius Balls Strive Dust These Days Necks Dragons Iron Leap Pace Globes Palms Impatient Steam Riders Elementals Omnipotence Audacious Sped Ubiquity Stiff Neck

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working well enough (often admirably); a jury-rigged set of adaptations built of curious parts made available by past histories in different contexts. A world optimally adapted to current environments is a world without history, and a world without history might have been created as we find it. History matters; it confounds perfection and proves that current life transformed its own past.”

“Never console yourself into believing that the terror has passed, for it looms as large and evil today as it did in the despicable era of Bedlam. But I must relate the horrors as I recall them, in the hope that some force for mankind might be moved to relieve forever the unfortunate creatures who are still imprisoned in the back wards of decaying institutions.”

Believe Stills Might Today Evil Force Forever Mankind Horror Creatures Institutions Moved Terror Eras Relate Recalls Unfortunate Console Despicable

Author:Frances Farmer

“The concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart. I don't necessarily think it has any problems, but if I were to force myself to name one, I would say that since the minimalist feeling already includes its own universe, I think it might kill the drive that we would otherwise have to commit the physically impossible and attempt to travel into outer space.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Feelings Problem Might Universe Names Force Space Impossible Training Concepts Commit Relax Monk Equilibrium Minimalism Outer Space Minimalist

Author:Takashi Murakami

“I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything else you choose. We know that the price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that they might some day force theirs on us.”

Knows Believe Might Belief Force Atheism Protect Catholic Jew Seeking Believer You Choose Protestants Non Believer

Author:Mario Cuomo

“Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It’s the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.”

Ends Seems Might Beautiful Games Force Wonder Creation Baseball Suspense Dull Opera Accumulation Metamorphosis Something Beautiful Indescribable Drowsy

Author:Joshua Ferris

“It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.”

Enough Might Eye Force Easy Violence Share Tools Rounds Allies Devoted

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.”

Trying Use Might Faces Force President Military Vote Chiefs Commanders Commander In Chief Military Force President Nixon

Author:Carl T. Rowan

“Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.”

Ifs Might Earth Given Force Weight Moved Remove

Book:Plutarch's Lives

Source: Plutarch's Lives

“Hitler can't walk over me as he might have done a year ago; I've seen to that. Don't forget that I have three million men, with every key position in the hands of my own people, Hitler knows that I have friends in the Reichswehr, you know! If Hitler is reasonable I shall settle the matter quietly; if he isn't I must be prepared to use force - not for my sake but for the sake of our revolution.”

People Ifs Knows Men Years Matter Done Use Hands Might Three Force My Own Walks Forget Millions Position Revolution Keys Years Ago Prepared Sake Settling Reasonable Be Prepared

Author:Ernst Rohm

“The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear bombs on enemy cities at the end of World War II. It might work less well for Israel, because the Israeli Air Force has never deliberately targeted a large civilian population center, and its leaders have said its morality would not permit it do so.”

“So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse and that we might wake up one morning to find the Baathist militia and the Iraqi army gone and the Americans walking down Saadun Street with their rifles over their shoulders. If the Iraqis can still hold out against such overwhelming force in Umm Qasr for four days, if they can keep fighting in Basra and Nasiriyah – the latter a city that briefly rose in revolt against Saddam's regime in 1991 – why should Saddam's forces not keep fighting in Baghdad?”

“A really intelligent nation might be held together by far stronger forces than are derived from the purely gregarious instincts. A nation need not be a mob of slaves, clinging to one another through fear, and for the most part incapable of self-government, and begging to be led; but it might consist of vigorous self-reliant men, knit to one another by innumerable ties, into a strong, tense, and elastic organisation.”

“A ley line is what might be called a field of force, a trail of telluric energy. There are hundreds of them, perhaps thousands, all over Britain, and they've been around since the Stone Age.”

Might Age Energy Force Lines Fields Stones Britain Trails Stone Age

Author:Stephen R. Lawhead

“It had long been an ambition to find the line of force that might lead to the Holy Land in the time of Christ.”

Long Might Force Christ Lines Land Holy Ambition Holy Land

Book:The Bone House: A Bright Empires Novel, Book 2

Source: The Bone House: A Bright Empires Novel, Book 2

“However much the creationist leaders might hammer away at their scientific and philosophical points, they would be helpless and a laughing-stock if that were all they had. It is religion that recruits their squadrons. Tens of millions of Americans, who neither know nor understand the actual arguments for - of even against - evolution, march in the army of the night, their Bibles held high. And they are a strong and frightening force, impervious to, and immunized against, the feeble lance of mere reason.”

Ifs Knows Reason Might Would Be Night Strong Force Leader Millions Laughing Evolution Argument Army Philosophical Mere March Frightening Helpless Hammers Recruit Impervious Creationist

Author:Isaac Asimov

“Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?”

“if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago. ... you must write to the human heart, the great consciousness that all humanity goes to make up. Otherwise what might be strength in a writer is only crudeness, and what might be insight is only observation; sentimemnt falls to sentimentality - you can write about life, but never write life itself.”

Ifs Writing Years Humans Heart Might Humanity Fall Force Perfect Consciousness Five Quiet Years Ago Insight Observation Five Years Mature Human Heart Better Than You Sentimentality

Author:Sarah Orne Jewett

“Love unspoken is the most tremendous force in the world. One is amazed at the way in which people waste their time making speeches, agitating, praying, even. They might save their breath. The great lovers of the world, in silence, rule the world.”

People World Way Might Force Silence Praying Lovers Speech Waste Breaths Amazed Great Love Unspoken Great Lovers

Author:Mary Webb

“The Communist Party and the Soviet Government display constant concern to strengthen the country's defensive might and raise the combat readiness of the Armed Forces.”

Country Government Might Force Party Concern Raises Constant Communist Combat Soviet Display Readiness Armed Forces Communist Party

Author:Andrei Grechko

“The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.”

Wells May Might Force Wish Conservative Reform Sigh Conservatism Oaks Old Time Clamor Acorns Well Wishes

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“I feel passionately about how I express myself. Language is the greatest motivating force. You can phrase something positively and inspire people to do their best, or negatively and make them feel worried, uncertain, and self-conscious. You can talk at a fast pace and people will get nervous, feel afraid to bring up extraneous thoughts. But those are the very thoughts that might be most important! They might represent that person's best thinking. If you're rushed, you're simply not going to get at that extra level of thinking.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Persons Important Self Might Language Force Levels Inspire Conscious Nervous Worried Phrases Extras Pace Uncertain Positively Self Conscious

Author:Frances Hesselbein

“Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to its shimmering red presence in the clear night sky. It is like a glowing ember in a field of ethereal lights, projecting energy and promise. It inspires visions of an approachable world. The mind vaults to thoughts of what might have been (if Mars were a litter closer to the warming Sun) and of what could be (if humans were one day to plant colonies there).”

Source: Mars Beckons: The Mysteries, the Challenges, the Expectations of Our Next Great Adventure in Space

“Barack Obama's mother-in-law might be moving into the White House with him. Joe Biden was right. Hostile forces will test him in the first few months.”

Firsts Might Moving Law Mother House Force White Months Tests Barack White House Hostile In-laws Biden Mother In Law

Author:Jay Leno

“It is not advisable for persons who are in the early stages of meditation to mediate on the two lower chakras. You will unleash powers and forces that will throw you into very powerful altered state of consciousness that might not be pleasant at all.”

“For a man is a little lower than the angels, yet was made that he might become the companion of the Creative Forces; and thus was given--in the breath of life--the individual soul, the stamp of approval as it were of the Creator; with the ability to know itself to be itself, and to make itself, as one with the Creative Forces--irrespective of other influences.”

Knows Men Littles Made Soul Might Individual Given Force Ability Creative Influence Angel Breaths Creator Companion Approval Stamps

Author:Edgar Cayce

“...evil is a force and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change its form. We light upon one evil and hit it with all the might of our civilization, but only succeed in scattering it into a dozen of other forms”

May Light Might Form Evil Force Civilization Succeed Chemicals Dozen

Book:The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Source: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

“It is the fixed that horrifies us, the fixed that assails us with the tremendous force of mindlessness. The fixed is a Mason jar,and we can't beat it open. ...The fixed is a world without fire--dead flint, dead tinder, and nowhere a spark. It is motion without direction, force without power, the aimless procession of caterpillars round the rim of a vase, and I hate it because at any moment I myself might step to that charmed and glistening thread.”

World Moments Might Hate Force Steps Fire Beats I Hate Rounds Fixed Sparks Thread Futility Jars Caterpillars Masons Charmed Rims Procession Vases Tinder

Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey might. Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might--so that the just and the strong should unite, and there should be peace, which is the sovereign good.”

Men Should Made Might Strong Force Causes Justice Power Made It Goods Sovereign Justified

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare.”

Might Age Force Purity Enlightened Grandeur Corrections

Author:Horace Walpole

“But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.”

“Parenting forces us to get to know ourselves better than we ever might have imagined we could--and in many new ways. . . . We'll discover talents we never dreamed we had and fervently wish for others at moments we feel we desperately need them. As time goes on, we'll probably discover that we have more to give and can give more than we ever imagined. But we'll also find that there are limits to our giving, and that may be hard for us to accept.”

Knows Way Needs Giving Feels May Hard Moments Might Force Wish Accepting Talent Goes On Limits Parenthood New Ways Time Goes On

Author:Fred Rogers

“There might have been a hundred or a thousand life-bearing planets, had the course of evolution of the universe been a little different, or there might have been none at all. They would probably add, that, as life and man have been produced, that shows that their production was possible; and therefore, if not now then at some other time, if not here then in some other planet of some other sun, we should be sure to have come into existence; or if not precisely the same as we are, then something a little better or a little worse.”

“In the days of peace every precaution should be taken to insure that there are no forces making for war. Just as we now forbid the trafficking in certain drugs, in the sale of poisons, just as we forbid the making of any imprint that suggests a coin or currency, just as experience has demonstrated that men may not make profit out of certain things because of the danger of abuse, so in the gravest of all dangers laws should be passed taking from those who might gain from war or preparations for war every hope that advantage could come to them by such a calamity.”

Men Should May War Might Law Certain Force Taken Danger Drug Gains Advantage Abuse Profit Preparation Poison Currency Coins Calamity Precaution Trafficking

Author:Frederic C. Howe

“Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.”

“In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!”

Might Hate Force Thirds Greed Protest Exile Physical Force Might Makes Right

Author:I. L. Peretz

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