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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. T...

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If we can use an H-bomb--and as you said it's no checker game; it's real, it's war and nobody is foo...

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Our goals can only be achieved with a society that respects and equally protects the rights of every...

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Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the strai...

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Balk the enemy's power force him to reveal himself.

Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. Society promotes our happiness p...

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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

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

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Force is all-conquering but its victories are short-lived.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most pote...

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The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But w...

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AesopAesop's Fables

Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.

If the international community is not ready to defend the principles which it itself has proclaimed ...

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In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she ...

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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect...

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We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the ...

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Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a paymen...

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An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery a...

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People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting b...

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Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

Everyone is by absolute natural right the master of his own thoughts, and thus utter failure will at...

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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon b...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence...

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as long as there arehuman beings aboutthere is never going to beany peacefor any individualupon this...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we...

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Chris HedgesWar Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a re...

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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a ...

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Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its ...

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Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Ju...

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Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest c...

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In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of co...

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When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world i...

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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Whatever happens, we have gotThe Maxim gun, and they have not.

What force is more potent than love?

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

I could not 'make' you--except by force, which would break your mind.

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, ...

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The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived fr...

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James Prescott JouleThe Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule - Volume 1

Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society.

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, a...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely th...

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Water is the driving force of all nature.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it ...

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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons ...

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The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is o...

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If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his...

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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of fals...

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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I ...

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Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't ...

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