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  • The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb.We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forcedby what? Bya system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.

    - Erich Fromm
      The Sane Society.

  • To be forced by desire into any unwarrantable belief is a calamity.

    - I(vor) A(rmstrong) Richards
      Principles of Literary Criticism.

  • Take caretoget what youlike or youwill be forcedto like what you get.

    - George Bernard Shaw
      Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings'.

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