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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.
Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks: the mortar crumbles.
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship. — © P. J. O'Rourke
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.
It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.
The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.
Force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before 1914, and what is especially alarming, force tends increasingly to fall into the hands of those who are enemies of civilization.
... some important factor doesn't lose its "share of force" just because some "expert" can better measure other types of force.
A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.
Life is what we make of it. Whether we conceive of an inner god force or an other, outer God, doesn't matter. Relying on that force does.
Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force men to remain just; in vain would it try to force them to be self-sacrificing.
You cannot force things to happen before their time. The Spring Will come and the flowers will blossom, but you cannot force the Spring. The Rain will come, the clouds will cover the sky, the whole thirst of the earth will be gone- but you cannot force it. And this is the beauty... that the more patient you are, the quicker is the coming of Spring.
'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people.
As our characters in our 'X-FORCE' began to push at the boundaries of what 'X-FORCE' was, it made perfect story sense for the team to change their name. — © Peter Milligan
As our characters in our 'X-FORCE' began to push at the boundaries of what 'X-FORCE' was, it made perfect story sense for the team to change their name.
The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.
The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love, also called Aphrodite; Love brings together dissimilar elements into a unity, to become a composite thing. Love is the same force that human beings find at work in themselves whenever they feel joy, love and peace. Strife, on the other hand, is the force responsible for the dissolution of the one back into its many, the four elements of which it was composed.
The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.
The Force is within you. Force yourself.
What I've learned and all of us have learned is: You can't force art, and there's no way you could force somebody to do something that they didn't want to do in this line of work.
You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!
Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions.
I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.
Sexual activity, and the thoughts and fantasies of sex, use up a great portion of our vital force. When that force is conserved through abstinence, it becomes sublimated as spiritual energy.
Robert De Niro's sort of like a surfer: he doesn't really force anything. So if he catches the wave, or something spills out - to watch a guy be a force at what he does. He has a good worth ethic.
Everything must be organized in the most rational way. The state won't accept excessive prices.
All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.
Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.
The force that was in the airport, this force was destroyed.
Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.
I think inequality is fine, as long as it is in the common interest. The problem is when it gets so extreme, when it becomes excessive.
The force that is running inside you is the same force running the solar system... the moment you relax from the 'I' the 'other' will disappear... you become 'one' with the truth.
I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that's really what I need.
An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
During the Umbrella Movement, the police force wasn't in control, and the police ignored the law and tried to use extreme force to hurt people.
When you have your star players that decide to use their platform, one, their platforms are bigger than everyone else's, and two, they're a force to be reckoned with because teams don't want to lose that talent. They're a force to be heard.
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force. — © George Orwell
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
I was in the Air Force and was a boom operator (in-flight refueling). I got my comedy start in the Air Force.
I think Dario Ringach is a poster boy for the concept that the use of force or the threat of force is an effective means to stop people who abuse animals," "No strictly peaceful movement has succeeded in liberation," "I think the animal rights movement has been restrained in its use of force, mostly because people in the struggle are often people of privilege who aren't willing to risk losing that privilege.
Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.
Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.
Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.
Excessive drinking is not good for my health, my family or my game. There has definitely been a change, and I feel better for it.
When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.
A powerful force drives the world toward a converging commonality, and that force is technology. … Almost everyone everywhere wants all the things they have heard about, seen, or experienced via the new technologies.
We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed — © Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed
Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. To insist on analysing this force is to destroy its very essence.
There is a celestial mind-force, a great sympathetic force which is life itself, of which everything is composed.
Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.
Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.
We need to force Iran to dismantle its nuclear program entirely or face the threat of military force to destroy that program.
Everywhere you see in creation there is Divine love. Love is the highest force, the greatest force, and the simplest
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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