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- What force is more potent than love?
- Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
- Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
- Judgment is forced upon us by experience.
- Johnson
- God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.
- Wilberforce
- Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- 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 (1837 - 1921)
- Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
- Joseph Sugarman
- No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
- Langston Hughes
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