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If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.

~Christina Romer

Topics: Anyone Bottom Certainly Competition Contribute Employers Ensure Every Find Force Hard Helping High Hire Hour Lines Normal Offering Other Paid Paying Perhaps Powerful Powerful Force Robust Store Times Town Unemployment Will Workers

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My mother wasn't controlling at all. She was a stabilizing force who grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. Now it's the big circle game. Taking care of her is a great blessing for me. I'll tuck her into bed, kiss her on the cheek, wipe up the mess on her blouse from whatever she spilled.

~Christine Ebersole

Topics: Bed Big Blessing Care Cheek Circle Controlling Farm Force Game Great Grew Her Kiss Me Mess Mother Now Pennsylvania She Spilled Taking Tuck Up Whatever Who Wipe

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As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

~Christopher Columbus

Topics: Arrived Been Either First Force Found Give Give Me Indies Information Island Learn Me Might Natives Order Parts Signs Some Soon Speech Them Took Understood Us Very Whatever Which

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No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.

~Christopher Dawson

Topics: Aggressive Always Been Civilization Culture Doubt Driving Driving Force Elements Even Force Full Ignored In The Past National No Doubt Our Passion Past Provided Revolutions Unconscious Wars Were Western Western Civilization

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My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it's possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.

~Christopher Durang

Topics: Been Being Biggest Biggest Problem Connect Emotions Feel Force Go God Her Him Human Human Being Imagined Let Go Organized Organized Religion Possible Problem Religion See Spiritually Then You I Feel

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The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: American Any Anymore Ask Being Could Force Itself Left Meaningless Near Nonsensical Politics Really Term Well Why Would

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Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Advertising Anything Buy Cannot Consumers Economics Force Insists Want

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The secret to gaining the upper hand in a negotiation is to give the other side the illusion of control. Don't try to force your opponent to admit that you are right. Ask questions, that begin with 'How?' or 'What?' so your opponent uses mental energy to figure out the answer.

~Christopher Voss

Topics: Admit Answer Ask Begin Control Energy Figure Force Gaining Give Hand How Illusion Mental Negotiation Opponent Other Out Questions Right Secret Side Try Upper Uses You Your

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Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.

~Chuck Hagel

Topics: Democracy Dice Force Imposing Roll Through

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As a former Airman First Class in the United States Air Force, like many veterans in America, my military experience played an important part in instilling in me a sense of character and discipline that has served me throughout my life.

~Chuck Norris

Topics: Air Air Force America Character Class Discipline Experience First First Class Force Former Important Important Part Life Like Many Me Military My Life Part Played Sense Served States Throughout United United States Veterans

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