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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Brothers in Arms"
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), 1903
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 (1880 - 1956)
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Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.: Peter Borden
That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 01-04-07
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.: Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882), We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.: Ramsay Clark
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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