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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
The true beauty of nature is her amplitude she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves). – Stephen Jay Gould	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it. – Germaine Greer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Creation and redemption are the spheres in which these glories are displayed. In creation we see the eternal power and deity that belong to God alone (Rom. 120) while a deeper and richer glory is unfolded in the wondrous cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. There God is fully revealed, not only in terms of His dominion and deity, but in His holiness, love, and grace. At the Cross I learn what creation could never tell me--who God is and what He is to me, a guilty sinner. God is love therefore, He is both light and life. A Savior-God What marvelous grace and glory. – William Hallman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Did is a word of achievement Won't is a word of defeat Might is a word of bereavement Can't is a word of defeat Ought is a word of duty Try is a word each hour Will is a word of beauty Can is a word of power. – Gerard Hargraves	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. – William Henry Harrison	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Why do we love the sea It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. – Robert Henri	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Desire creates the power. – Raymond Holliwell	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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