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"I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture." »Sidney Madwed
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"Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Judgment is forced upon us by experience." »Johnson
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"We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary." »Antonin Artaud
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"I dont want to be cross, Love cannot be forced." »Edith Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
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"I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion." »Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government"
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"Every moment that a man may be in want of employment, than such I hold him to be far better who is forced to labour for nothing." »Afghan
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"We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water." »W.C. Fields
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"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools." »Ernest Hemingway
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"Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields." »Peter Borden
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"He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one." »Alexander Pope
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"He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one." »Alexander Pope
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"All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else." »H. L. Mencken
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"All wit and fancy, like a diamond, The more exact and curious ?tis ground, Is forced for every carat to abate As much of value as it wants in weight." »Butler
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"Happiness is the summit of a high mountain; we can visit it, but we can't stay there! We are forced to go down to the valleys of sadness." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else." »H.L. Mencken
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"When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth -- then all Americans are in peril." »Harry S Truman
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"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." »James Arthur Baldwin
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"The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'." »Phillip Lopate
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"My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort." »Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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"It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves." »Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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"There are no extraordinary men...just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with." »William Bull Halsey
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"The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy." »Johnson
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"They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating new discrimination. (Defending his nominees for Civil Rights Commission)" »Ronald Reagan
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"When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions." »Walter Lippmann
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"Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief." »Schopenhauer
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"Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see." »Jim Morrison
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"No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before." »Colin Greenwood
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"Paul was to know and proclaim God's will, His purpose, in view of Israel's rejection of christ. Had god been taken by surprise in the crucifixion of Christ Would He now be forced to resort to some makeshift arrangement No, for the crucifixion was all part of--indeed, the central part of, His secret, eternal plan, now revealed to Paul." »Cornelius Stam
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