#orc

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao. ↗

— Steve Forbes

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The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

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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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Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear. ↗

— Barney Frank

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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong. ↗

— Al Franken

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work. ↗

— Princess Diana

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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. ↗

— Robert Frost

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I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it. ↗

— John Frusciante

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It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. ↗

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

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