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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema. ↗

— Mary Garden

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If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation. ↗

— Earl Warren

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In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

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The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

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Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle. ↗

— Chris Matthews

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It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it. ↗

— Jon McGregor

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Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions. ↗

— Barney Frank

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