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Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them. ↗

— Thomas Browne

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Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core. ↗

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

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Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. ↗

— David Hume

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A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

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The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. ↗

— John Locke

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Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh. ↗

— Robert Cecil

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All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed. ↗

— Leland Stanford

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