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Carl von Clausewitz, fully Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz, also Karl von Clausewitz

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.

Action | Force | War | Wisdom |

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Everett Dirksen, fully Everett McKinley Dirksen

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Force | Time | Wisdom |

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Harold Willis Dodds

It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

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Albert Einstein

The cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

Experience | Force | Research | Wisdom |

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Albert Einstein

Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.

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Albert Einstein

The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.

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George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.

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John Dewey

We are weak today in ideal matters because intelligence is divorced from aspiration. The bare force of circumstance compels us onwards in the daily detail of our beliefs and acts, but our deeper thoughts and desires turn backwards. When philosophy shall have co-operated with the course of events and made clear and coherent the meaning of the daily detail, science and emotion will interpenetrate, practice and imagination will embrace. Poetry and religious feeling will be the unforced flowers of life. To further this articulation and revelation of the meanings of the current course of events is the task and problem of philosophy in days of transition.

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John Dewey

To suppose there is some one unchanging native force which generates war is as naive as the usual assumption that our enemy is actuated solely by the meaner of the tendencies named and we only by the nobler.

Enemy | Force | War | Wisdom |

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Thomas Flatman

Thoughts! what are they? They are my constant friends, who, when harsh fate its dull brow bends, uncloud me with a smiling ray, and in the depth of midnight force a day.

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François Fénelon, fully Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

Force | Mind | Power | Wisdom |

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George F Gilder

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. In technology, economics, and the politics of nations, wealth in the form of physical resources is steadily declining in value and significance. The powers of mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

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Andrew Hamilton, fully Andrew Jackson Hamilton

Power may justly be compared to a great river; while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it brings destruction and desolation to all in its way.

Desolation | Power | Wisdom |

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J. B. S. Haldane, fully John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

The ideal society would enable every man and woman to develop along their individual lines, and not attempt to force all into one mould, however admirable.

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