Quotes with power-releasing

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  • Wilferd Arlan Peterson Success is focusing the full power of all you are one what you have a burning desire to achieve.
    Wilferd Arlan Peterson
    American author (1900 - 1995)
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  • James Russell Lowell Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Beau Willimon Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Annie Jump Cannon Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
    Annie Jump Cannon
    American astronomer (1863 - 1941)
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  • Octavio Paz Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • John Burroughs Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Albert Einstein That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Billie Jean King That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Beth Henley That's what I like about [smoking]... taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • William Shakespeare The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Edmund White The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
    Edmund White
    American novelist and LGBT essayist (1940 - )
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  • Albert Einstein The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Naomi Wolf The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.
    Naomi Wolf
    American author, journalist, feminist, and former political advisor (1962 - )
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  • Stephen King The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Pearl S. Buck The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Lewis Mumford The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Walter Benjamin The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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