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«Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.»
Author: Brenda Ueland
| About:
Force,
Listening
| Keywords:
alternate, alternating, alternating current, current, re-create, re-created, tired of
«The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.»
Author: David Friedman
(Political scientist)
| About:
Force
| Keywords:
direct, employed, employing, generally, large, nations, solution
«The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations»
«The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force»
Author: George Bancroft
| About:
Civilization,
Force,
Intelligence,
Mind,
Progress,
Wealth
| Keywords:
brute, brute force, exact, prevailed
«The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Force,
Press,
Schools
| Keywords:
In the press, police, police force, reactionaries, reactionary
«I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.»
«There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Force,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
baseness, Law of the Sea
«Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Force,
Love
| Keywords:
force, humbler, humblest, imaginable, possesses, strongest, yet
«There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Force,
Spirit,
Violence
| Keywords:
Between Two Worlds, conquered, forces, in the long run, long run, spirit world, sword, The Long, The Long Run, The Spirit, The Sword
«Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Force,
Hypocrisy,
Leadership
| Keywords:
following, lead, mob, mobs, the mob, The People
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