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  • There are always two forces warring against each other within us. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
  • There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known. -- Donella Meadows
  • Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony. -- Emma Goldman
  • We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles. -- Jack Adams
  • We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both. -- John Callahan
  • When two forces unite, their efficiency double. -- Isaac Newton
  • Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey. -- Chris Heimerdinger
  • As a magician, you must think about chaos and order. Those are the two forces that control the universe. -- Rick Riordan
  • In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers -- Sherwood Anderson
  • Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here. -- Mark Twain
  • There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • The lure of happiness and the fear of pain . . . are the two forces which have through untold millenniums kept what we usually call life from destruction by the ever encroaching outside forces of destruction. -- Luther Burbank
  • There are only two forces that can withstand the force of the war's spirit when it seizes upon the world. The one is the force of an independently thinking, free, and articulate democracy. The other is the force of an instructed and enlightened public opinion. -- Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence
  • I believe the American dream is still alive and that education and entrepreneurship together are its key enablers. Through the years I have observed the power of this combination when the two forces work in tandem. Together they lead to personal success, business success, and societal success. -- Ralph de la Vega
  • Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive. -- E. O. Wilson
  • Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites. -- Chuck D
  • I was Minister for the Armed Forces in the Ministry of Defence for two years prior to being appointed Defence Secretary. -- Bob Ainsworth
  • Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces. -- Steven Spielberg
  • If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment. -- Dominic Monaghan
  • Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator? -- Jules Verne
  • Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: resonant history with wild-eyed fantasy. -- Paul Di Filippo
  • I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil. -- Eugenio Montale
  • We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces - or at the very least a plan for it - something the administration has incredulously failed to do for over two years. -- Sherrod Brown
  • 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
  • There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand. -- Billy Graham
  • Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice. -- John McCain
  • A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people. -- Paula Patton
  • Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity. -- Simone Weil
  • There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. -- John Lennon
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  • The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. -- Susan Sontag
  • You know, sometimes even when two people love each other the universe still conspires against them, forces them apart. -- Sarah Noffke
  • Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history. -- Henry James
  • Darkness can inspire light, and light can inspire darkness, its just a difference of distant of these two contrasting forces. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
  • Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book. -- Maxim Gorky
  • Two friends . . . there are stronger forces on earth, perhaps, but few as tenacious and enduring as the bond between true friends. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
  • Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past. -- Eknath Easwaran
  • These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick. -- Gore Vidal
  • Public television goes dark only in two circumstances: when a country is occupied by foreign forces or when there is a coup. -- Alexis Tsipras
  • All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • If you put two brigades on the ground right now with U.S. forces, they would push ISIS back into Syria in a heartbeat. -- Anthony Zinni
  • Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward. -- Robert Andrews Millikan
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  • Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces , Faith and Love . Prayer is sublime. -- Albert Pike
  • two powerful, opposing forces - one seducing people to eat and the other telling them they are failures if they do - create heartache everywhere. -- Emme
  • What I should do and what I want to do are two opposing forces. I have no idea which way I am going to end up. -- Ava Zavora
  • For two are the mystical pillars, that stand at the gate of the shrine, And two are the powers of Nature, the forms and the forces divine. -- Doreen Valiente
  • There are two phases of the redeployment of the Israeli forces in the West Bank: One, to allow elections. Second, after the elections, to help further redeployment. -- Yitzhak Rabin
  • A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to save others and to save oneself. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
  • The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to the individual. Procreation, equilibrium. -- Machado de Assis
  • When you step up to being excellent, use hard work and commitment as the two powerful forces they are. By being persistent, over time you will earn gleaming success. -- Mark F. LaMoure
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