#orc

The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#army #assemblage #brigades #fighting #force

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#force #journalism #know #really #seriously

I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military that goes off and kills terrorists and whatnot. A cleaner environment without forcing SUVs off the road. ↗

— Craig Armstrong

#bigger #cleaner #deficits #environment #forcing

A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#arranged #compensate #constituting #each #equilibrium

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#less #like #survive #you

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

#basic #force #go #law #new

Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#afterlife #any #enforce #fails #firmly

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#full #grasp #know #laws #letter

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#divorce #divorces #four #i #marriage

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#fear #forces #interest #only #two