Quotes with powers-that-be

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  • Billy Graham Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Phillips Brooks Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Paul J. Meyer Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.
    Paul J. Meyer
    American businessman and business consultant (1928 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Mary Cholmondeley Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
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  • Charles M. Schwab Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • W. Clement Stone Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Albert Claude For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Denis Waitley Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Abdul Kalam God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Ben Bernanke History has demonstrated time and again the inherent resilience and recuperative powers of the American economy.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
    The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (2011) 97
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Ronald Reagan I could see where you could have the exchange of tactical weapons against troupes in the field without it bringing either one of the major powers to pushing the button.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Bryan Singer I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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  • Alexander the Great I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Calvin Coolidge If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final.
    Speech on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (5 July 1926)
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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