Quotes 741 till 760 of 1045.
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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.
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The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
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The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out.
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
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The pathway to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on yours, and that you may never experience the humiliation that the power of the American government has reduced me to, is the wish of him who, in his native forests, was once as proud as you.
Source: The Autobiography of Black Hawk (1833) -
The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
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The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
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The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.
Source: Storage and Stability Part V, Ch. XIX, The Reservoir Plan and Tradition, -
The point of power is always in the present moment.
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The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.
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The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
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The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
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The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
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The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
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