pressures

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In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures. Carroll Quigley

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more. Alan Hansen

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training. Carroll Quigley

...self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment. Carl von Clausewitz

Not that freedom ensured happiness. Indeed, to be free was to live in absence. Of responsibilities, of loyalties, of the pressures that expectation imposed. Steven Erikson

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality. John F. Kennedy