“ Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony. ”
- Jonah Goldberg- Copy
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“ All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
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“ We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. ”
- Carlo Brumat- Copy
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“ An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. ”
- Frank Zappa- Copy
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“ If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge, are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? — not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
- 468
“ For years I was an undiagnosed anorexic, suffering from a little-known variant of the disease, where, freakishly, the appetite turns in on itself and demands more and more food, forcing the sufferer to gain several stones in weight and wear men's V-necked pullovers… ”
- Victoria Wood- Copy
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“ The hotel was a forcing house for situations every shade of behavior in public had significance, so that the choice of a seat could constitute a victory or a reverse, and a few words aside change the complexion of half the day. ”
- Gladys Parrish- Copy
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“ Francis had always been ecumenical in his atheism. He was a sprepared to disbelieve in this Tolca character as he was to disbelieve in Yahweh, Jesus, Buddha, Vishnu or any of the other words for what his father used to call forcing yourself to misperceive the obvious. ”
- James Morrow- Copy
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“ Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better or quit… ”
- Og Mandino- Copy
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“ And that was victory. The freedom to sprawl loosely upon a city street, heat his coffee and eat a can of beans… with no enemy bullets forcing him to toss the can aside while diving behind another wall for momentary survival. ”
- David Douglas Duncan- Copy
- 179
“ We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours. ”
- Adam Clarke- Copy
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