Quotes with power-releasing

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  • Theodore Roosevelt Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Eric Hoffer Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Eliza Farnham Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.
    Eliza Farnham
    American novelist, feminist and abolitionist (1815 - 1864)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Our power is in our ability to decide.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick Our power is not so much in us as through us.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Benito Mussolini Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Bruce Lipton Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The subconscious mind is like a tape player. Until you change the tape, it will not change.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Brad Feld Part of the power of having startup communities is it continues to challenge the status quo. So for many of these cities that were once very important and powerful that today are struggling, startup communities are a way for them to rejuvenate themselves.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Edmund Burke People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow People demand freedom only when they have no power.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Swami Ramdas People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.
    Swami Ramdas
    Indian saint, philosopher, philanthropist and pilgrim (1884 - 1963)
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  • Campbell Brown People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Albert Bandura People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
    Albert Bandura
    Canadian-American psychologist (1925 - )
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  • Vaclav Havel People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • George Orwell Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Charles Dudley Warner Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
    Charles Dudley Warner
    American writer (1829 - 1900)
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  • Samuel G. Goodrich Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.
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  • Anthony Robbins Personal power is the ability to take action.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • William James Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • B. F. Skinner Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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