#forcing

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion. ↗

— Joe Arpaio

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Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. ↗

— Carol Burnett

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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing. ↗

— Robert Collier

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Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them. ↗

— David Duchovny

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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

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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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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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In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits. ↗

— Eric Liu

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