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When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued. – Julia Margaret Cameron	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Jesus' ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice was made--life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who rejected an offer of power and control – Joan B. Campbell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little. – Rachel Carson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. – Willa Sibert Cather	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators. – Neville Chamberlain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past. – Noam Chomsky	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process. – Barbara Colorose	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception. – Emile Coue	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The greatest power is often simple patience. – E. Joseph Crossman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms. – Tench Coxe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. – Charles De Gaulle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. – Vine Deloria	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non-Being. – The Dhammapada	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch. – Steve Droke	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American. – David Duchovny	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To be good, we must do good and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power. – Tryon Edwards	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen. – Abd Er-Rahman III	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Either you think--or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. – F Scott	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes. – William Fullbright	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. – Shakti Gawain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. – Henry George	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. – Maurice Godelier	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. – Nadine Gordimer	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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