Quotes 781 till 800 of 958.
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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
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This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
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This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.
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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
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Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.
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Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.
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Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.
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Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
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To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
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To be a revolutionary you have to be human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 108 -
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
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To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
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To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.
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