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It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

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It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

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The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth. ↗

— Margaret Lee Runbeck

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No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#formidable #no problem #problem #walk #you

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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