Quotes with power-worship

Quotes 961 till 980 of 1019.

  • Wallace D. Wattles Where there is no power... there is never any desire to do a thing; and where there is strong desire to do a thing... the power to do it is strong.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wherever there is power there is age.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Victoria Billings Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.
    Victoria Billings
    American writer
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  • Bill Owens While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Albert Camus Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Cesare Pavese Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Josh Billings Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas J. Watson Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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  • William Wordsworth With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Armstrong Williams With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Maxwell Maltz Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • James Connolly Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.
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  • William Cobbett Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Camille Paglia Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Gloria Steinem Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Candace Bushnell Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Wonder is the basis of worship.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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