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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway

Time, Drunk, Sometimes

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
William Arthur Ward

Love, Forget, May

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
Harry S. Truman

Fear, Mind, Nothing

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard Shaw

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin

Best, Business, Wisdom

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Bill Vaughan

Age, Youth, Year

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields

Food, Live, Nothing

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James A. Baldwin

Hate, Pain, Sense

We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn't forced to be the systems integrator.
Steve Jobs

Becoming, Model, Apple

In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
Barack Obama

Down, Against, Might

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
Sigmund Freud

Belief, Unbelief

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.
Marilyn Manson

God, Art, Spiritual

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
W. Clement Stone

Power, Yourself, True

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.
Mitt Romney

Money, Power, Support

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
Thornton Wilder

Freedom, Alone, Decisions

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
Ron Paul

Death, Live, Liberty

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.
Clint Eastwood

Time, Death, Fear

On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.
Mitt Romney

Health, Government, Care

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
Les Brown

Yourself, Put, Outside

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
Golda Meir

Beautiful, Girl, True

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Strong, Decision, Between

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Charles Kingsley

Work, Best, Strength

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Between, House, Choose

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
Abbie Hoffman

Eat, Wars, Compulsory

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
Franz Kafka

Thought, Until, Action

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
Epicurus

Time, Yourself, Crowd

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
Ovid

Strength, Within, Grief

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
Andre Gide

Life, Alone, Logic

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
Cesar Chavez

Strength, Live, Despair

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Time, Help

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