Quotes with powers-hence

Quotes 81 till 100 of 167.

  • Rose Tremain Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.
    (2010)
    Rose Tremain
    English author, chancellor of the University of East Anglia (1943 - )
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  • Bernard Bailyn Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 203
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Ben Huh New media's not very old, hence the word new, so we don't know a lot of things about new media and by the time you've taught it it's probably out of date. I think it's much more beneficial to have an experiential lesson versus a classroom lesson in new media.
    Ben Huh
    South-Korean-American internet entrepreneur (1979 - )
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  • Albert Claude No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Edmund Burke No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Edgar Sheffield Brightman No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.
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  • Bob Woodward Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • John S. Bonnell Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.
    John S. Bonnell
    American pastor
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  • Saskya Pandita Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
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  • Eric Butterworth Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Margaret Thatcher One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, ''Well, I'll have a go, too.''
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Jean Paul Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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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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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Adrian Cronauer Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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  • Alvin Toffler Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • B. W. Powe Passion was animal flesh, raw desire gnawing and ripping at its early limitations. These passions were to be feared only if undirected by the conscience of the higher self. Mind was the key to the process of enlightenment. Hence reason was the first principle, light itself.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Emanations, Destinies, p. 4
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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