Quotes 861 till 880 of 1045.
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Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.
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Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
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Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.
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Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.
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Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
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To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
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To be a revolutionary you have to be human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 108 -
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
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To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
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To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
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To me the ''female principle'' is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
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To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Source: An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) V, 25, 4-5
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