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"Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows--it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful." »R. D. Laing
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"The great object is, that every man be armed. ... Every one who is able may have a gun." »Patrick Henry
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"We are twice armed if we fight with faith." »Plato
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"In US we had our share of civil conflicts driven by economic forces. The European immigrants brought slaves from Africa to use them as cheap labor for farming their lands. The color of the skin is only a rationalization for the continuation of the slavery system. All the segregation and discrimination rules against the blacks at that time were made to preserve the existing economic system and the interest of its beneficiaries. Though the American civil war was attributed to states and civil rights, the driving forces behind the war was the conflict of economic interests." »Med Jones
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"The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards -- and even then I have my doubts." »Eugene H. Spafford
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"The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision." »Henry Kissinger
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"We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character." »Henry David Thoreau
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"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed." »Reinhold Niebuhr
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"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" »Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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"A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards." »Charles W. Chesnutt
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"All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing." »Edmund Burke
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"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." »George
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"I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment." »Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline"
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"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living." »Soren Kierkegaard
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"Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people." »Aristotle
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"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were." »Cherie Carter-Scott
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"Muse is a tyrant. It gets you out of bed in the twilight of the morning and forces you to create something!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature." »William Rotsler
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"When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods." »Leon Battista Alberti
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"Surprise is the tool of the Devil and it is the greatest power of the evil forces!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The continuous war between the reactionary and the progressive forces determine the degree of mankind's happiness." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice." »Sovereign
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"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments." »Jim Morrison
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"Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him." »John Burroughs
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"Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race." »Henry G. Stott
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"Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on." »Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re-armament
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"Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us." »David Sarnoff
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