#forces

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation. ↗

— Charles Evans Hughes

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Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#complete #desire #finish #forces #halt

The U.S.-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#forces #god #going #huge #huge numbers

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

#experience #forces #generally #maximum #means

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. ↗

— May Sarton

#back #circles #down #everything #forces

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. ↗

— Charles Scribner, Jr.

#forces #means #mind #own #person

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#concepts #constitutes #control #dangerous #first

We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians. ↗

— James P. Hoffa

#business #chosen #country #even #fight

You’re as close to a fucking home as I get. ↗

— Aleksandr Voinov

#special-forces-soldiers #tough-men-admit-mm-love #love