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No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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With one decision, Judge Sotomayor changed the entire dispute. Her ruling rescued the 1995 baseball season and forced the parties to resume real negotiations. ↗

— David Cone

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It did not prepare me for writing or "Power of Attorney." However, what it did is that it forced me out of the DA's office. I stopped getting that county check. ↗

— Christopher Darden

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I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust. ↗

— Edward Dmytryk

#being #believed #career #communist #communist party

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#civil #civil war #essentially #forced #iraq

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#allowed #eve #forced #late #middle

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature. ↗

— Rita Dove

#adversity #almost #begin #being #convey

But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every reason to believe things can settle out in a situation that is recognizably better than the one we're stuck in today. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#better #every #forced #i #i think

In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#case #children #church #course #families

I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience. ↗

— Joss Whedon

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