Quotes with horse-power

Quotes 721 till 740 of 1045.

  • Baruch Spinoza The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
    Source: Ethics
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Mark Twain The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Willa Cather The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says ''mine, mine,'' more fiercely.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Alice Walker The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Albert Einstein The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ram Dass The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
    Ram Dass
    American spiritual teacher, psychologist and author (1931 - 2019)
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  • Barry Commoner The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Ben Folds The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Bob Woodward The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro The Obamacare contraception mandate was never about freedom. It was always about pitting secularism against religion, and using the power of government to sponsor secularism.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Thomas Hobbes The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Susan B. Anthony The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
    Susan B. Anthony
    American women's rights activist (1820 - 1906)
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  • Ayn Rand The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • John Stuart Mill The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Malcolm X The only thing power respects, is power.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Gabriel Heatter The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
    Gabriel Heatter
    American radio commentator and journalist (1890 - 1972)
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