Quotes with powers-that-be

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  • Cassandra Clare There are so many stories about boys becoming heroes, learning their powers and becoming incredibly heroic. There have to be those stories for girls, too.
    Cassandra Clare
    American author of young adult fiction (1973 - )
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Erich Fromm There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Baruch Spinoza To bring aid to everyone in need far surpasses the powers and advantage of a private person.... So the case of the poor falls upon society as a whole.
    Ethics
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Phillips Brooks To say, ''well done'' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • John F. Kennedy True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Bob Woodward Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Barbara Lee We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Bobby Jindal We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Lady Blessington We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
    Lady Blessington
    Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess (1789 - 1849)
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  • Bill Rancic Well, the 'Giuliana & Bill' show is a little bit different because Giuliana and I are the executive producers of the show, so certainly we have a lot of control and we have total, I guess if we wanted to, editing power, but I will say, in the seven seasons we've done the show, we've never used our executive producer powers to cut something out.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Western culture from the start has swerved from femaleness. The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bishop Westcott What we can do for another is the test of powers. What we can suffer for is the test of love.
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  • Henry Miller When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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