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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 -
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.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.''
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Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
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Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave.
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Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and, they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
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Some relaxation is necessary to people of every degree; the head that thinks and the hand that labors, must have some little time to recruit their diminished powers.
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