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He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

Alexandre Dumas

When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target.

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

Michael Douglas

Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years.

Lord Alfred Douglas

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Everett Dirksen

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

Bernadette Devlin

We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world.

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.